U+1F9D3 "🧓" Older Adult Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🧓
U+1F9D3 "🧓" Older Adult is part of the Emoji category and depicts the face of an elderly person with gray or white hair, glasses, and wrinkles, symbolizing wisdom, age, and seniority. Introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017, it functions as a gender neutral representation of an older individual, though it can be modified with additional Unicode sequences to depict a specific gender, such as an older man or woman. This emoji is commonly used in digital communication to refer to grandparents, mentors, or anyone considered advanced in years, often in contexts of respect, advice, or reminiscence.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9D3 |
| Version Added | 10.0 |
| Name | Older Adult |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🧓 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🧓 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x93 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDD3 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9D3 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddd3 |