An older adult with no gender specified. This emoji may be used to talk about older adults in a gender-inclusive way. The main purpose of designing the βOlder Personβ emoji is to represent elderly individuals, providing a visual cue for age within digital communication platforms. It is important that even older people get included in the emoji world and to make this possible, the introduction of this emoji was a great stepping stone.
HISTORY:
According to the standardization of Unicode Consortium, this emoji was introduced in the emoji world and gained immense attention and consideration right after its introduction. Previously, this emoji is so widespread that almost everyone uses it with varied concepts in their mind.
USES:
Apart from the concept of being old, the reference and use of this emoji can be done to state a person who is tired, due to his life consequences or any other things that happen in his/her life. This is a much symbolic meaning to this emoji but surely makes great sense when proper attention is paid to it.
Name | Older Person |
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Codepoint | U+1F9D3 |
Unicode | Older Adult |
Apple Name | Older Adult |
Android Name | |
Shortcode | :older_adult: (GitHub, Slack, Discord) |