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jbaylina
jbaylina

Reputation: 4698

What Unicode symbol represents a person?

Does there exist a Unicode symbol that represents a person? I would expect something like this:

pictogram of a stick figure

I need a short way to represent a price per person, such as “25€/person”, but with the word “person” replaced with a Unicode character for a person. The benefit will be that the picture isn’t tied to the English language.

Upvotes: 77

Views: 109999

Answers (4)

jawira
jawira

Reputation: 4588

Yes, there is a stick man (and stick lady) character:

stick man stick lady

These characters are available from Unicode v13, therefore many systems are not capable to display it yet.

Source: http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U1FB00.pdf

Upvotes: 11

dakab
dakab

Reputation: 5875

Just think of the Emoji block of Unicode. Perhaps the man 👨 at U+1F468 or the woman 👩 at U+1F469 will suffice, but there are also children, older people, etc. Here’s a list of Emoji People. It still depends on your actual use-case.

If other exotics are no issue, take a look at Egyptian Hieroglyphs. There are lots of human pictograms, like 𓀠 at U+13020 and many others. Another generic (even gender-neutral) pictogram might be the symbol for men’s restrooms 🚹 at U+1F6B9, but a charge for restroom use is not desirable. There’s still more, like the pedestrian 🚶 at U+1F6B6 or the bust in silhouette 👤 at U+1F464.

As comprehensive, yet extensible list:

(Use Ctrl++ or off-site styling to distinguish details.)

Depending on platform, the characters might be rendered surprisingly unresembling:

Screenshots of the “person” pictographs above on different platforms.

Upvotes: 115

paxdiablo
paxdiablo

Reputation: 881093

This Korean character U+c6c3 HANGUL SYLLABLE US, looks a bit like your stick figure:

웃

Since it's Korean for "smiling", you just may have to watch out for Koreans getting offended that they're being charged for what should, after all, be common courtesy on your part :-)

웃, UTF-16: C6 C3
웃, UTF-8: EC 9B 83

Upvotes: 13

Niels Keurentjes
Niels Keurentjes

Reputation: 41958

This is what the internet gods invented SVG for:

svg {
  width:15px;
  height:15px;
  stroke-width:10;
  stroke:black;
  fill:transparent;
}
25€/<svg viewbox="0 0 150 300">
  <circle cx="75" cy="55" r="50" />
  <path d="M75,105 L75,200 L25,300 M75,200 L125,300 M0,150 L150,150"></path>
</svg>

Upvotes: 12

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