person: medium skin tone, blond hair
Unicode: 1F471 1F3FD
Description
A person with blond hair, medium skin tone, and often depicted as a young adult. The person is gender-neutral by design but often perceived as female, wearing a simple shirt.
Group:
People & Body > person
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral, often used to refer to a person generally or someone with blond hair. Can be used in contexts describing 'a person' or 'anyone'.
Backstory
The 'person' emoji (1F471) was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) as a gender-neutral representation. The skin tone modifier (1F3FD for medium skin tone) was added in Unicode 8.0 (2015) as part of the effort to provide more inclusive and diverse portrayals of human figures in emojis.
Usage Examples
- Referring to someone generally: 'Ask a person about it. 🧑🏼''
- Describing someone with blond hair: 'The new employee has blond hair. 🧑🏼''
- In a phrase like 'everybody': 'Everybody should know. 🧑🏼''
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Frequently used to represent someone with blond hair or, in some contexts, a generic young person.
East Asian culture:
Similar usage, often for a generic person or someone with light-colored hair, less specific connotation than some other emojis.