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Pilot emoji 🧑‍✈️

🧑‍✈️ is the pilot: a person in a captain’s hat and epaulettes. It means pilots and aviation — flight school, airline careers, “this is your captain speaking” — with…

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What the pilot 🧑‍✈️ emoji means

🧑‍✈️ is the pilot: a person in a captain’s hat and epaulettes. It means pilots and aviation — flight school, airline careers, “this is your captain speaking” — with 👩‍✈️ woman pilot and 👨‍✈️ man pilot plus skin tones. It is also used for flight attendants, who have no emoji. Added in Emoji 4.0 (2016). Air set: ✈️ airplane, 🛩️ small airplane, 🧑‍🚀 astronaut.

Unicode name: pilot · U+1F9D1 U+200D U+2708 U+FE0F · Emoji 12.1 (2019) · group: People & Body.

IN A MESSAGEpassed my PPL 🧑‍✈️ licensed to fly very small planes very carefully

How people use it

  • Pilots: careers, flight school
  • Travel: “captain speaking” jokes
  • Cabin crew: stand-in
  • Aviation fans: planespotting

Compare the options

EmojiNameNotes
pilotU+1F9D1 U+200D U+2708 U+FE0FPilot
woman pilotU+1F469 U+200D U+2708 U+FE0FWoman pilot
man pilotU+1F468 U+200D U+2708 U+FE0FMan pilot
airplaneU+2708 U+FE0FPlane
astronautU+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F680Space

Questions people ask

What does 🧑‍✈️ mean?

A pilot — aviation, flying, cabin crew.

Is there a flight attendant emoji?

No; 🧑‍✈️ pilot is used.

When was 🧑‍✈️ added?

2016, Emoji 4.0.

About this guide

Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.

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