What Unicode symbol represents a person?

Question

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

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.

Solution 1

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:

• 👤 U+1F464 BUST IN SILHOUETTE (Block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs)
• 👨 U+1F468 MAN (Block Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs)
• 🚹 U+1F6B9 MENS SYMBOL (Block Transport and Map Symbols)
• 🚶 U+1F6B6 PEDESTRIAN (Block Transport and Map Symbols)
• 웃 U+C6C3 HANGUL SYLLABLE US (Block Hangul Syllables)
• ꆜ U+A19C YI SYLLABLE HLIE (Block Yi Syllables)
• ጰ U+1330 ETHIOPIC SYLLABLE PHA (Block Ethiopic)
• 𓀠 U+13020 EGYPTIAN HIEROGLYPH A028 (Block Egyptian Hieroglyphs)

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

Solution 2

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 :-)

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웃, UTF-16: C6 C3
웃, UTF-8: EC 9B 83

Solution 3

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>

Solution 4

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

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

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