👮🏾
police officer: medium-dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F46E 1F3FE
Description
A person wearing a police officer's uniform, depicted with darker skin tone, indicating law enforcement.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Represents authority, law enforcement, security, or a specific profession. Can also be used to signify 'stop', 'on duty', or 'rules'.
Backstory
The 'Person in Police Uniform' emoji (1F46E) was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The skin tone modifier (1F3FE) was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, allowing for greater diversity in emoji representation.
Usage Examples
- Reporting a situation: 'The police are on their way. 👮🏻'
- Discussing law enforcement: 'We need to respect the 👮🏻.'
- Humorous context: 'You broke the rules! 👮🏻'
- Referring to a profession: 'My friend is a 👮🏻.'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Identified directly with police officers, often used in contexts of law, order, security, or sometimes authority figures.
East Asian culture:
Similar interpretation, but might also be used playfully in contexts of 'you're busted' or 'I caught you'.