Farmer

A person who grows food, shown with a hat and a sheaf of grain. The emoji joins the neutral person 🧑 to the sheaf of rice 🌾, and as of 2026 most platforms draw a sun or straw hat, work clothes and the harvested bundle. It stands for any farmer, grower or gardener, and people use it far beyond professional agriculture: allotments, balcony tomatoes, backyard chickens and the whole back-to-the-land dream.

The man 👨‍🌾 and woman 👩‍🌾 farmers arrived in 2016, part of a set of professions that Google proposed so that women would appear in more jobs on the emoji keyboard. This gender-free version followed in 2019, when Unicode added a neutral option for every profession, so you can mean 'a farmer' without saying man or woman. Skin tones work on all three.

The bundle is rice, not wheat. 🌾 began on Japanese phones as the ear of rice that marks the autumn harvest, and the farmer inherited it. Outside East Asia nobody minds; it reads as grain.

What does it mean when someone sends 🧑‍🌾?

Usually pride in something they grew, or a nod to farm life. Next to a photo of tomatoes or a muddy harvest it means 'look what I did', and the right reply is admiration, or a request for a share. In a news thread or next to 🚜 it points at agriculture itself: harvest season, food prices, farmers' protests. In captions like 'farmer era' it is a playful costume: a homesteading or cottagecore mood, not a career change. People who play farming games use it for an evening of virtual crops.