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🧑🏫 Teacher emoji
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What does 🧑🏫 Teacher emoji mean?
The Teacher emoji 🧑🏫 displays a teacher standing in front of a chalkboard. It is commonly used to represent teachers or education. The Teacher emoji 🧑🏫 is often used by teachers to discuss their jobs or by students to discuss their teachers or things happening at their school or college.
The Teacher emoji 🧑🏫 sees increased use on May 4, which is Teacher Appreciation Day, and October 5, which is World Teachers Day.
Where does 🧑🏫 Teacher emoji come from?
The Teacher emoji 🧑🏫, was added to Emoji 12.1 in 2019. If your device supports this emoji, it is created by a combination of the Person emoji 🧑 and the School emoji 🏫. On most major platforms, the emoji resembles the head and shoulders of a teacher positioned in front of a chalkboard. On all platforms, the teacher is a yellow-skinned person of indeterminate gender.
The Twitter version lacks glasses. The Google and Samsung version has an orange short and brown hair while the Apple, WhatsApp, and Twitter versions have yellow hair. The emoji has a grey shirt on Apple and Twitter and a blue shirt on WhatsApp. The emoji can be customized to have different skin colors or to more specifically resemble a man or a woman.
Examples of 🧑🏫 Teacher emoji
Who uses 🧑🏫 Teacher emoji?
The Teacher emoji 🧑🏫 is used by both teachers and students when discussing school or college. It is much more likely to be used to express negative opinions or hatred of school when used by students.
Reading some of the online discussions of my students in UP OU, and superb, they are actually interacting with the answers of their peers. Plus, their discussions, ughhhh simply stimulating. 🧑🏫👩💻
— Jickerson Lado (@jickersonlado) September 25, 2020
My teacher 🧑🏫 private chatted me on zoom saying how he noticed I hadn’t started my test.. 😝 i was on tiktok sir that’s why😔🤒
— aurora (@aurora15950575) October 7, 2020
Being in a class on zoom be like
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🥱⬛️⬛️⬛️⬛️— vic is ia due to hw (@PlECKCULT) August 27, 2020
On Thank a Teacher Day and World Teachers Day, the Teacher emoji 🧑🏫 is used in social media posts celebrating the day and (we hope) saying nice things about teachers.
National Thank A Teacher Day 🧑🏫👏👏👏 #thankateacher #howwillyousaythankyou pic.twitter.com/R5Xhz39G5W
— Rainham School for Girls (@RainhamGirls) May 21, 2020
Happy World Teachers Day to all of the fantastic teachers out there 👩🏫🧑🏫 Thank you for all that you do #WorldTeachersDay2020
— Christine (@ChrisAEvans29) October 5, 2020
Note
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