🕵🏻
What 🕵🏻 means
🕵🏻 is the Detective emoji with the light skin tone applied — same meaning and uses, in the tone that looks like you.
Depicted here is a private investigator/detective with a hat on and holding a magnifying glass to his eye; a look popularized by the fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes. This emoji usually tells the recipient that detective-like skills and intelligence were used to craft something or figure something out.
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-role
- Codepoints
U+1F575 U+1F3FB- Emoji version
- Emoji 2.0
- Shortcodes
:detective_tone1:Discord:spy_tone1:Discord:sleuth_or_spy_tone1:Discord- Keywords
- detective, light skin tone, sleuth, spy
- Variant of
- 🕵️ detective · how tone modifiers work
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🕵🏻 Detective: Light Skin Tone or 🌸 Cherry Blossom?