Detective emoji
Type :detective: · People & body
Unicode name Detective · added in Emoji 0.7, 2014
What 🕵️ means
A detective. Investigating, digging into something, and the polite way to say you did some research on someone.
How to type 🕵️ without a picker
With Emoji Anywhere
installed, type :dete
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick 🕵️ from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:detective: Search terms
Also found by searching sleuth, spy.
Skin tones for 🕵️
Detective comes in five tones on top of the default yellow. Set a default once in the extension’s options and every suggestion uses it; right-click 🕵️ in the popup for a one-off variant.
default 🕵🏻 light 🕵🏼 medium-light 🕵🏽 medium 🕵🏾 medium-dark 🕵🏿 dark 🕵️ in HTML, CSS and code
Detective is a sequence of 2 codepoints, which is why pasting only the first one renders something else. Use the whole thing.
- Unicode
- U+1F575 U+FE0F
- HTML
- 🕵️
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F575}\u{FE0F}'
- CSS content
- "\1F575 \FE0F"
- Python
- '\U0001F575\uFE0F'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%95%B5%EF%B8%8F
Related emojis
:man_detective: 🕵️♀️ :woman_detective: 👋 :wave: 🤚 :raised_back_of_hand: 🖐️ :raised_hand_with_fingers_splayed: ✋️ :high_five: 🖖 :vulcan: 🫱 :rightwards_hand: 🫴 :palm_up: 👌 :ok_hand: All people & body shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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