People & Body Emoji

Exploring People & Body Emoji

People & Body emoji represent people, hand gestures, body parts, activities, occupations, families, and many forms of human expression.

This page provides three representative examples from each People & Body subcategory, including decimal and hexadecimal HTML character references and CLDR short names. Many of these emoji can also be combined with skin-tone modifiers to create additional emoji sequences.

Hand Fingers Open

Hand Fingers Open emoji depict hands with open or extended fingers and are commonly used for greetings, stopping, waving, and other gestures.

Hand Fingers Partial

Hand Fingers Partial emoji form recognizable gestures using selected fingers to communicate approval, victory, affection, and other meanings.

Hand Single Finger

Hand Single Finger emoji use one extended finger for pointing, indicating direction, attracting attention, or communicating a gesture.

Hand Fingers Closed

Hand Fingers Closed emoji include thumbs and fist gestures used for approval, disagreement, encouragement, solidarity, or emphasis.

Hands

Hands emoji use one or more hands to represent applause, celebration, affection, prayer, thanks, and other forms of communication.

Hand Prop

Hand Prop emoji combine a hand with an action or object, such as writing, applying nail polish, or taking a selfie.

Body Parts

Body Parts emoji depict parts of the human body as well as prosthetic and anatomical representations.

Person

Person emoji represent people of different ages and appearances and provide base characters for many additional emoji sequences.

Person Gesture

Person Gesture emoji use posture and movement to communicate reactions, answers, attention, disagreement, and other nonverbal expressions.

Person Role

Person Role emoji represent occupations, education, professions, and other roles, with many created as multi-character emoji sequences.

Person Fantasy

Person Fantasy emoji represent imaginary, mythical, holiday, and supernatural characters.

Person Activity

Person Activity emoji depict people performing everyday actions such as receiving personal care, walking, climbing, and other activities.

Person Sport

Person Sport emoji depict athletes and participants engaged in sports and competitive activities.

Person Resting

Person Resting emoji represent relaxation, bathing, sleeping, meditation, and other restful activities.

Family

Family emoji include people holding hands, couples, relationships, and family groups, with many represented by multi-character emoji sequences.

Person Symbol

Person Symbol emoji use simplified figures, silhouettes, and group symbols to represent people and social interaction.

Summary

People & Body emoji cover hand gestures, body parts, people, occupations, activities, sports, families, and other forms of human expression. Many can also be combined with skin-tone modifiers or other Unicode characters to create additional emoji sequences.

The examples on this page provide a representative selection from each subcategory. Use the Unicode Full Emoji List and Full Emoji Modifier Sequences for the complete collection of People & Body emoji and their supported variations.