🕵🏿
detective: dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F575 1F3FF
Description
A secret agent or detective emoji with a brown, dark skin tone.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Typically represents secrecy, investigation, mystery, or being discreet.
Backstory
The Spy emoji was approved as part of Unicode 7.0 in 2014. The darker skin tone variant (1F3FF) was added to support a wider range of human representations in emojis, providing more diversity.
Usage Examples
- Plotting a surprise party: "It's a secret! 🕵🏿♀️"
- Investigating a mystery: "I'm on the case! 🕵🏿♂️"
- Sharing gossip: "Psst, I found something out 🕵🏿♀️"
- Being discreet: "Keep it on the down-low 🕵🏿♂️"
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used to imply 'top secret' or 'undercover operations,' often in a lighthearted manner.
East Asian culture:
Similar usage, often used for playful spying or sharing confidential (but not serious) information among friends.