What Unicode symbol represents a person?

jbaylina picture jbaylina · Oct 21, 2015 · Viewed 59.7k times · Source

Does there exist a Unicode symbol that represents a person? I would expect something like this:

pictogram of a stick figure

I need a short way to represent a price per person, such as “25€/person”, but with the word “person” replaced with a Unicode character for a person. The benefit will be that the picture isn’t tied to the English language.

Answer

dakab picture dakab · Oct 21, 2015

Just think of the Emoji block of Unicode. Perhaps the man 👨 at U+1F468 or the woman 👩 at U+1F469 will suffice, but there are also children, older people, etc. Here’s a list of Emoji People. It still depends on your actual use-case.

If other exotics are no issue, take a look at Egyptian Hieroglyphs. There are lots of human pictograms, like 𓀠 at U+13020 and many others. Another generic (even gender-neutral) pictogram might be the symbol for men’s restrooms 🚹 at U+1F6B9, but a charge for restroom use is not desirable. There’s still more, like the pedestrian 🚶 at U+1F6B6 or the bust in silhouette 👤 at U+1F464.

As comprehensive, yet extensible list:

(Use Ctrl++ or off-site styling to distinguish details.)

Depending on platform, the characters might be rendered surprisingly unresembling:

Screenshots of the “person” pictographs above on different platforms.