police officer: medium-light skin tone
Unicode: 1F46E 1F3FC
Description
A police officer, depicted with dark blue uniform, hat, and badge, and light skin tone. The gender is not specified to allow for diverse interpretations.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Typically represents law enforcement, authority, safety, or sometimes a sense of duty or protection.
Backstory
The police officer emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010), alongside other profession-based emojis. The skin tone modifier (1F3FC) was added in Unicode 8.0 (2015) as part of an effort to provide more diverse representations of human emojis.
Usage Examples
- Indicating a police presence: 'Police at the scene. 👮🏼'
- Referring to law enforcement: 'Called the 👮🏼 for assistance.'
- Talking about safety: 'Stay safe out there, the 👮🏼 are on duty.'
- Figuratively, for someone who enforces rules: 'My mom is being a 👮🏼 tonight!'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Often associated with public service, order, and sometimes discussions around civil liberties or police conduct.
East Asian culture:
Generally seen as a symbol of public safety and order, less commonly associated with political or social commentary compared to Western contexts.