medium-dark skin tone Emoji

medium-dark skin tone is a component emoji — a modifier piece (skin tone or hair style) designed to combine with a compatible base emoji rather than to be sent on its own. Most messaging apps handle this combination automatically through a modifier picker.

Category context: The Component category holds building-block elements — skin tones and hair styles — that combine with base emoji (like hand gestures or people) rather than being used as standalone symbols on their own.

Cataloged under Skin Tone within the Component category, medium-dark skin tone is the 8th of 9 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 1 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, this specific version includes a skin-tone modifier, meaning it is built by combining a base emoji with one of the five Fitzpatrick-scale skin-tone components introduced in Unicode 8.0. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F3FE.

💡 Good to know: Skin-tone modifiers were introduced in Unicode 8.0 (2015) based on the Fitzpatrick scale, a dermatology classification system, to represent a range of human skin tones.