medium skin tone Emoji

medium 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 skin tone is the 7th 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+1F3FD.

💡 Good to know: Component emoji are rarely sent standalone — they are typically selected through your keyboard's emoji picker as a modifier applied to a base emoji like a hand gesture or a person.