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An undercover investigator,&nbsp;wearing a hat, and sometimes using a <a href="/magnifying-glass-tilted-right/" title=" 🔎 Right-Pointing Magnifying Glass">magnifying glass</a> to closely inspect evidence. This emoji did not originally recommend emoji modifiers, but a <a href="http://blog.emojipedia.org/diverse-spy-proposal/">proposal</a> was created&nbsp;to address this.

Sleuth or Spy

A dark brown&nbsp;skin tone modifier, which can be applied to a range of human emoji characters.

Type 5 on the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fitzpatrick_scale" target="_blank">Fitzpatrick Scale</a>&nbsp;of skin tones is described as:&nbsp;&nbsp;Dark brown; Middle Eastern skin types

Emoji Modifier Fitzpatrick Type-5

Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is a Unicode character that joins two or more other characters together in sequence to create a new emoji.

Zero Width Joiner, pronounced &quot;zwidge&quot;, is not an emoji and has no appearance by itself. This&nbsp;is an invisible character when used alone.

View&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/" title="Emoji ZWJ Sequences">Emoji ZWJ Sequences</a>&nbsp;that use this character.

Zero Width Joiner

A circle shown with a crossed vertical line beneath it, used as a representation for&nbsp;women. Often used on <a href="/international-womens-day/">International Women&#39;s Day</a>.

Female Sign

Detective: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Man Detective: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

Woman Detective: Medium-Dark Skin Tone

A yellow face with its right hand saluting. Used as a sign of respect.

The expression of the face of this emoji can vary across platforms, with some designs featuring a <a href="/neutral-face">neutral</a> face while others are shown smiling to various degrees.&nbsp;

Apple and Huewai&#39;s designs notably only display half a face, likely to make the saluting hand more prominent when this emoji is viewed in smaller sizes.

<div id="professor_prebid-root">This emoji went viral across Twitter in late 2022 following the&nbsp;news that the platform would be dramatically reducing its staff numbers as part of a company-wide restructuring following its acquisition by Elon Musk. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/10-years-of-viral-emoji-moments/">Learn more here.</a></div>

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Saluting Face

A yellow face with big glasses, a large nose, thick eyebrows, and a mustache. Used to represent someone in disguise.

The features of this particular disguised face are taken from the &ldquo;Groucho Mask&rdquo; or &ldquo;Groucho Glasses,&rdquo; designed in the likeness of the caricature played by Julius Henry Marx in the Marx Brothers&#39; films. These comedic films were popular in the 1930s and &lsquo;40s, and the mask has been a mainstay of joke shops since <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/18/books/there-ain-t-no-sanity-claus.html">as early as the 1940s</a>.

Other emoji faces in disguise include <a href="/superhero/">🦸 Superhero</a> and <a href="/supervillain/">🦹 Supervillain</a>.

Disguised Face

A single human eye, looking forward. This eye is in a different shape and style to the pair of <a href="/eyes/" title=" 👀 Eyes">eyes</a>, which are more rounded, and looking to one side.

Notably used alongside the <a href="/mouth">mouth</a> emoji to create the &quot;It is what it is&quot; emoji face: 👁️👄👁️. <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/10-years-of-viral-emoji-moments/">Learn more here</a>.

A person who presides over court proceedings, wearing the traditional black gown and wielding a&nbsp;gavel.

Judge

A man who presides over court proceedings, wearing the traditional black gown and wielding a&nbsp;gavel.

Man Judge

A woman who presides over court proceedings, wearing the traditional black gown and wielding a&nbsp;gavel.

Woman Judge

A person behind a computer screen, working in the field of technology.

Usually shown working on a <a href="/laptop">laptop</a>, though Google&#39;s design appears to be using a <a href="/desktop-computer">desktop computer</a>&nbsp;instead.

<div id="professor_prebid-root">The <a href="/laptop">laptop</a> in Apple&#39;s design includes the Apple logo, as per a Macbook. Samsung and Huawei&#39;s designs include their company&#39;s logotype, while the designs from Microsoft, WhatsApp, Telegram, and JoyPixels show their logomark.</div>

Technologist

A man behind a computer screen, working in the field of technology.

See also:&nbsp;<a href="/woman-technologist/" title="👩‍💻 Female Technologist">👩&zwj;💻&nbsp;Female Technologist</a>

Man Technologist

A woman behind a computer screen, working in the field of technology.

See also:&nbsp;👨&zwj;💻<a href="/man-technologist/" title="👨‍💻 Male Technologist">&nbsp;Male Technologist</a>

Woman Technologist

A police officer wearing&nbsp;a blue hat&nbsp;with a gold badge or shield in the middle.

See also <a href="/woman-police-officer/">👮&zwj;♀️ Woman Police Officer</a> or&nbsp;<a href="/man-police-officer/">👮&zwj;♂️ Man Police Officer</a>

Police Officer

The male version of the <a href="/police-officer/">👮&nbsp;Police Officer</a> emoji. Currently identical in appearance to the non-gendered base emoji.

Man Police Officer

The female version of the <a href="/police-officer/">👮&nbsp;Police Officer</a> emoji.

Woman Police Officer

A person dressed as a ninja with a black hood, a mask covering the lower half of their face, and the hilt of a knife or sword&nbsp;emerging from behind their shoulder.

The now-discontinued Microsoft&nbsp;<a href="/emoji-zwj-sequence/">ZWJ sequence</a>&nbsp;<a href="/ninja-cat/">🐱&zwj;👤&nbsp;Ninja Cat</a>&nbsp;did not include the&nbsp;ninja&nbsp;emoji at all as it was developed several years before ninja&nbsp;was approved. It combined&nbsp;<a href="/cat-face/">🐱 Cat Face</a> and <a href="/bust-in-silhouette/">👤 Bust in Silhouette</a> and was&nbsp;only available from Microsoft prior to the debut of the Fluent emoji set in November 2021.

Ninja

A person dressed for a formal occasion, wearing a tuxedo. No gender is specified for this emoji. See also <a href="/woman-in-tuxedo/">Woman in Tuxedo</a> and <a href="/man-in-tuxedo/">Man in Tuxedo</a>.

Man in Tuxedo

A man dressed for a formal occasion, wearing a tuxedo.

A woman dressed for a formal occasion, wearing a tuxedo.

Woman in Tuxedo

A person who wields abilities beyond those of ordinary people and is dedicated to protecting the public. Generally depicted as wearing a colorful <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domino_mask">domino mask</a> and a cape.

This base emoji does not specify a gender, but is used to create the emojis for <a href="/man-superhero/">Man Superhero</a> and <a href="/woman-superhero/">Woman Superhero</a>.

The <a href="/supervillain/">Supervillain</a>&nbsp;is the nemesis of this emoji.

Superhero

A <a href="/man">man </a>who wields abilities beyond those of ordinary people and is dedicated to protecting the public. Generally depicted as wearing a colorful domino mask and a cape.

The <a href="/supervillain/">Supervillain</a>&nbsp;is the nemesis of this emoji.

Man Superhero

A <a href="/woman">woman </a>who wields abilities beyond those of ordinary people and is dedicated to protecting the public. Generally depicted as wearing a colorful domino mask and a cape.

The <a href="/supervillain/">Supervillain</a>&nbsp;is the nemesis of this emoji.

Woman Superhero

A <a href="/person">person</a> who wields abilities beyond those of ordinary people who, unlike their nemesis the&nbsp;<a href="/superhero/">Superhero</a>, uses their powers for evil.&nbsp;

This base emoji does not specify a gender, but is used to create the emojis for <a href="/man-supervillain/">Man Supervillain</a> and <a href="/woman-supervillain/">Woman Supervillain</a>.

Google&#39;s design is similar to that of Mr. Sinister from the X-Men Marvel comics.

Supervillain

A <a href="/man">man</a>&nbsp;who wields abilities beyond those of ordinary people who, unlike their nemesis the&nbsp;<a href="/superhero/">Superhero</a>, uses their powers for evil.&nbsp;

Google&#39;s design is similar to that of Mr. Sinister from the X-Men Marvel comics.

Man Supervillain

A <a href="/woman">woman&nbsp;</a>who wields abilities beyond those of ordinary people who, unlike their nemesis the&nbsp;<a href="/superhero/">Superhero</a>, uses their powers for evil.&nbsp;

Google&#39;s design is similar to that of Mr. Sinister from the X-Men Marvel comics.

Woman Supervillain

A person wearing a suit, hovering above the ground with a shadow displayed beneath them. Generally shown wearing a fedora or similar style of hat.

This character was originally <a href="https://www.babelstone.co.uk/Blog/2013/10/whats-new-in-unicode-70.html">introduced</a> into the Webdings font as an &ldquo;exclamation mark in the style of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rude_boy" title="Wikipedia : Rude boy">rude boy</a> logo found on records by&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Specials" title="Wikipedia : The Specials">The Specials</a>&quot;.&nbsp;This&nbsp;levitating&nbsp;man was known as Walt Jabsco.

Man in Business Suit Levitating

Generic profile of one person. Often used in interface design to represent a user.

Bust in Silhouette

Generic profile of two people. Often used in interface design to represent users.

Busts in Silhouette

A stemmed glass with a cone-shaped bowl, used for serving cocktails. Depicted as a&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martini_(cocktail)">martini</a>&nbsp;garnished with an olive. Might be gin or vodka, shaken or stirred. See also&nbsp;<a href="/tropical-drink/">Tropical Drink</a>.

Cocktail Glass

A short, flat glass, as used for brown liquors like&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisky">whiskey</a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_whisky">Scotch whisky</a>.

Apple, Google, Facebook, and WhatsApp serve&nbsp;theirs neat, while other platforms include <a href="/ice/">ice</a> (&quot;on the rocks&quot;).

Samsung&#39;s glass <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/tumbler-glass/">previously</a> featured&nbsp;the faint initials&nbsp;ONI,&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/samsungs-biggest-ever-emoji-update/">an apparent in-company easter egg</a>.

Tumbler Glass

A globe, showing the continents of Europe and Africa in green against blue ocean.

May be used to represent various content concerning the European, African, and Atlantic regions. May also be used to represent Earth and international&nbsp;affairs more generally.

See also <a href="/globe-showing-americas/">🌎 Globe Showing Americas</a> and <a href="/globe-showing-asia-australia/">🌏 Globe Showing Asia-Australia</a>.

Earth Globe Europe-Africa

A globe, showing the continents of North and South America in green against blue ocean.

May be used to represent various content concerning the North and South American regions as well Atlantic and Pacific regions. May also be used to represent Earth and international affairs more generally.

See also <a href="/globe-showing-europe-africa/">🌍 Globe Showing Europe-Africa</a> and <a href="/globe-showing-asia-australia/">🌏 Globe Showing Asia-Australia</a>.

Earth Globe Americas

🕵🏾‍♀️ Woman Detective: Medium-Dark Skin Tone on WhatsApp 2.24.8.85

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