Person: Medium-dark Skin Tone, Blond Hair Emoji

The 👱🏾 Person: Medium-dark Skin Tone, Blond Hair emoji shows a person with blond hair and a medium-dark skin tone. People use it to represent themselves or others with that look, to describe appearance, or to add inclusive, personalized representation to messages, profiles, and character descriptions.

What Does the Person: Medium-dark Skin Tone, Blond Hair Emoji Mean?

The 👱🏾 emoji means a person with blond hair and a medium-dark skin tone, and its main job is to depict appearance and identity.

Unlike most face emojis, this one does not express a mood. It is a portrait-style emoji that stands for a real person: you, a friend, a character in a story, or a type of look. The blond hair and the medium-dark skin tone appear together, which makes the emoji useful for people whose appearance combines those two features and who want an emoji that reflects them.

The emoji belongs to the People & Body category, the same family as hand gestures, people, and body parts. You can browse the whole group on the People & Body emojis category page.

Quick facts about this emoji

• Official name: Person: Medium-dark Skin Tone, Blond Hair
• Unicode name: PERSON: MEDIUM-DARK SKIN TONE, BLOND HAIR
• Codepoints: U+1F471 U+1F3FE (the base person with blond hair plus the medium-dark skin tone modifier)
• Unicode version: 8.0
• Emoji version: 1.0
• Shortcode: :person_medium_dark_skin_tone_blond_hair:

How Is This Emoji Built From the Base Person With Blond Hair?

The emoji is a two-part sequence: the base emoji U+1F471 (Person: Blond Hair) followed by U+1F3FE, the medium-dark skin tone modifier.

Skin tone modifiers are a Unicode feature that lets a single base emoji appear in five skin tones. When a modifier follows a compatible base character, supported platforms combine them into one image. If a device does not support the modifier, you may see the plain base emoji next to a small brown square instead. That fallback is rare on current phones and computers, but it can show up in very old software.

The base character is a gender-neutral person, so the emoji does not specify whether the person is a man or a woman. That neutrality is one reason it works well for describing someone without committing to a gender label. To see the version without a skin tone, visit the Person: Blond Hair emoji page.

How Do You Use the Person: Medium-dark Skin Tone, Blond Hair Emoji?

You use this emoji whenever you want to show a person with blond hair and medium-dark skin, most often for self-representation or description.

Because it is a depiction rather than a reaction, it tends to appear in a few predictable places. Here are the most common ones:

• Social media bios and display names: to signal who you are or to add a personal touch next to your name.
• Character descriptions: in fan fiction, role-playing, game profiles, or creative writing, to sketch what a character looks like.
• Group chats: to point at a friend who matches the look, or to tag yourself in a joke.
• Hair and beauty topics: posts about bleaching, dyeing, highlights, or blonde hair on deeper skin tones.

Here are a few realistic examples of how it appears in messages:

• New hair day 👱🏾 finally went platinum and I have zero regrets
• Casting call: looking for a lead who looks like 👱🏾 for the short film
• Me 👱🏾 when someone says blondes have more fun

What Does 👱🏾 Mean in Texting and on Social Media?

In texting and on social media, 👱🏾 usually means "this is me" or "this person," rather than expressing a specific feeling.

It acts like a tiny avatar. Someone might drop it into a caption to stand in for themselves, much like a profile picture in miniature. It can also work as a playful label in a conversation, for example when joking about a friend's new hair color or tagging a character in a group discussion.

Tone depends entirely on the words around it. Paired with excitement, it reads as celebratory. Paired with a casual description, it reads as neutral. The emoji itself carries no sarcasm, aggression, or romance, so the surrounding sentence sets the mood.

Why Does Skin Tone Representation Matter for This Emoji?

Skin tone options matter because they let people see themselves in the emoji they send, rather than defaulting to one look.

Choosing a skin tone is a personal decision, and nobody has to pick the one that matches their own complexion. Many people select the tone that reflects their identity, and others choose a tone for a friend, a character, or a family member. This particular combination, medium-dark skin with blond hair, represents a look that people with a wide range of backgrounds recognize in themselves, whether the hair color is natural, dyed, or sun-lightened.

The emoji is also a good fit for conversations about diversity and inclusion. Teams, communities, and brands sometimes use a mix of skin tones to show variety, and a single person emoji with a specific tone and hair color adds a concrete, individual touch to that kind of messaging.

How Does the Person: Medium-dark Skin Tone, Blond Hair Emoji Look on Different Platforms?

The emoji is supported across all major platforms, but each vendor draws the face, hairstyle, and shade of blond in its own style.

Support comes from Apple (iOS 9.1+ and macOS 10.11.1+), Google (Android 6.0.1+), Microsoft (Windows 10+), Samsung (One UI 1.0+), WhatsApp (2.17+), and Twitter (Twemoji 2.0+). That means the emoji displays on virtually any modern device.

Appearance varies in a few ways you may notice:

• The length and style of the blond hair differs between vendors.
• The exact shade of medium-dark skin is rendered slightly differently on each platform.
• Facial features and line weight follow each vendor's design language, from soft and rounded to flat and graphic.

Because of these differences, a message that looks one way on your phone may look slightly different on your friend's device. The meaning stays the same, but the art does not, so avoid describing very fine details of the emoji's look as if everyone sees the same picture.

Which Emojis Pair Well With 👱🏾?

Emojis that pair well with 👱🏾 are those that add context about hair, mood, or the action you are describing.

Since this emoji identifies a person, the best companions describe what that person is doing or feeling. Some natural combinations:

• 👱🏾 + 👀: "look at this person" or "notice the new look." See the Eyes emoji for more on how it signals attention.
• 👱🏾 + 👍: approval of a hairstyle or a person's look. The Thumbs Up emoji is a classic approval signal.
• 👱🏾 + 🤷🏻‍♀️: a "who knows" or "no idea" shrug alongside a character description. Try the Woman Shrugging emoji.
• 👱🏾 + 🤦🏻‍♀️: a facepalm reaction when the person in a story does something silly. See the Woman Facepalming emoji.
• 👱🏾 + 🥷: casting a character as a stealthy fighter in a role-play or story. Check the Ninja emoji.

When mixing skin tones across emojis, keep in mind that each emoji carries its own tone. Matching tones can feel intentional, but mismatched ones are also common and not a mistake.

When Should You Avoid the Person: Medium-dark Skin Tone, Blond Hair Emoji?

Avoid this emoji when you want to express a feeling, because it describes appearance and does not convey emotion on its own.

There are a few other situations where it is worth pausing:

• Assuming it represents someone's identity: using a skin tone emoji to stand in for another person can come across as presumptuous if you have not checked how they prefer to be represented.
• Making jokes about appearance: stereotypes about blond hair or skin tone can land badly, so keep humor kind and clear.
• Formal writing: in official documents, reports, or professional emails, a person emoji usually looks out of place. It is fine in friendly workplace chats, where emojis are already normal.

If you are unsure whether a skin tone choice fits, the plain Person: Blond Hair emoji avoids the question entirely.

How Do You Copy and Paste the Person: Medium-dark Skin Tone, Blond Hair Emoji?

You can copy 👱🏾 with one click on this page and paste it into any app that supports emoji.

Click the copy button near the emoji, then paste it with Ctrl+V on Windows and Linux or Cmd+V on a Mac. On a phone, long-press the text field and tap Paste. Because the emoji is a sequence of two codepoints, copying it from this page ensures both parts travel together, so the skin tone does not drop off when you paste.

If you want to build whole messages out of emojis, try the Emoji Translator tool, which turns text into emojis. To see what other people are copying right now, browse the trending emojis page.