🧓 Older person
🧓 Emoji meaning
Respect your elders! Gender-neutral, aging, older generation.
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🧓 Meaning
This rather concerns the older generation! Not yet old, but neither young anymore. Gender-neutral version of an older person. It is about people of mature age in general, where gender does not matter.
Examples
- How old were you then? 🧓
- It's more for the older generation. 🧓
- Wow, that's a lot of life experience! 🧓
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Commonly confused with
Same Shape
Old person vs old man; both depict elderly figures, one gender-neutral and one male-specific.
ZWJ Sequence
Person with white hair vs old person; both indicate old age or greying hair.
Variants
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Older person” was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there were 2 changes.
Emoji title before
older adult
Emoji title after
older person
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In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 4.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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