🧑‍⚖️

Judge Emoji 🧑‍⚖️

What 🧑‍⚖️ means

A gender-neutral portrayal of a person who works as a judge at any given court, irrespective of the hierarchy. This character sports a side-parted hair look, adorns formal clothing, and holds a gavel to the left side of the shoulder.

The 🧑‍⚖️ Judge emoji signifies justice, arbitration, and a sense of being in search of the truth (which might be a little abstract if thought in any other context besides a courtroom). It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

🧑‍⚖️ works as a playful way to say that you're judging someone or something.
If someone or yourself did the judging but judged the book cover a little too soon, then you can still use 🧑‍⚖️ in such contexts as well.
Use 🧑‍⚖️ while describing someone or yourself who recently (or not) became a judge.
You can also use 🧑‍⚖️ as a reaction to posts related to justice, court, law, and everything righteous that you're passionate about.
If you've been a judge for a while, you can use 🧑‍⚖️ in your profile name. More so, if you're sensitive about your online identity too.
Apart from the courtroom drama, you can also use 🧑‍⚖️ while trying to settle a familial dispute (a casual one, like "Who cut the cheese" or something similar, but not as gassy) or a confusion with your homies.

Other Names

🧑‍⚖️ Gender-Neutral Judge
🧑‍⚖️ Courtroom
🧑‍⚖️ Arbitrator
🧑‍⚖️ Magistrate
🧑‍⚖️ Law
🧑‍⚖️ Authority
🧑‍⚖️ Jurisdiction
🧑‍⚖️ Justice
🧑‍⚖️ Expert
🧑‍⚖️ My Lord
🧑‍⚖️ Your Honor
🧑‍⚖️ My Lady
🧑‍⚖️ Sir
🧑‍⚖️ Ma'am
🧑‍⚖️ Master
🧑‍⚖️ Judiciary
🧑‍⚖️ Legal

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-role
Codepoints: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+2696 U+FE0F
Emoji version: Emoji 12.1
Shortcodes: :judge: Slack · Discord
Keywords: judge, justice, law, scales
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

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.