fsymbols
🔍
Loading symbols…
››
🧓

older person

Older Person

🧓 is an older adult with no gender assigned; the family tuner lets you pick a skin tone or switch to the older man or older woman. People use it for a grandparent, senior, or elder when gender doesn't matter — and about themselves when they feel ancient.

EmojiSince 2017
Search it as
grandma · grandpa · grandparent · elder · elderly · old person · senior · senior citizen
Type it as
:older_adult:
Around since
2017 · Emoji 5.0
Shows up on
Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux

Choose a version

18 versions
skin tone
gender

What 🧓 means

So you can mention age without picking a gender. A 2016 proposal to the Unicode Consortium, the body that standardizes digital text, asked for an older-adult figure next to 👴 and 👵 for when gender is unknown or beside the point — a relative, a mentor, a stranger.

The same 2016 proposal warned that a face drawn to look neutral may still read as masculine or feminine, depending on who is looking.

Neutral by design; any sting comes from who it's aimed at.

Aimed at a peer, it can read as calling them old.

What it means when someone sends it to you

2 readings
About an actual grandparent or elder
Plain, respectful reference to a real older person.
Sent about yourself after a long day
You feel worn out or outdated — a joke, not an age claim.

Every form of this symbol

18
Click a version to select and copy it.

Don't confuse it with

3
👴
Old Man
Older Man — pick it only when you mean a man.
👵
Old Woman
Older Woman — pick it only when you mean a woman.
🧑‍🦳
Person: White Hair
Person with white hair marks hair colour, not age. Choose by the trait your message is about.

Combination ideas

1
A birthday wish for an older relative.

Worth knowing

  • 🧓 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.

Questions people ask

2

Is it rude to send the old person emoji to someone?

It can be. Pointed at a peer, it reads as calling them old; it lands best for real elders or jokes about yourself.

Does 🧓 mean someone is nonbinary?

No. It leaves gender unspecified. It can describe a nonbinary older person, but it doesn't label anyone as nonbinary.

How to type 🧓

Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “older person”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “older person”.
Chat apps
:older_adult:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.
HTML
🧓
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🧓
HTML hex
🧓
CSS content
content: "\1F9D3";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A7%93
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

Families this belongs to

1

People & body101 symbols

💪🤦🤷👀🙋💃🙆💁🚶🏃👅👶