🕵️ Detective Emoji
🕵️ Copy & Paste
| 🕵️ | Noto Color Emoji 17.0 |
🕵️ Related Emojis
The 🕵️ emoji is often associated with the following emojis:
🕵️ Meaning and Usage
The detective emoji 🕵️ depicts a figure dressed classically as a sleuth or spy, complete with a trench coat and a wide-brimmed hat, sometimes holding a magnifying glass. This character suggests mystery, investigation, and covert operations. It is commonly used to convey spying, investigating someone or something, or delving into a mystery or situation.
Emoji name: detective
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🕵️ Chat Examples
- I'm on the case! Gonna find out who's been stealing the cookies 🕵️🍪
- Who forgot to clean up after the party last night? Time for some detective work 🕵️🎉
- I feel like a real spy, trying to figure out this puzzle! 🕵️🧩
- I'm on the hunt for the best coffee in town 🕵️☕
- My laptop 💻 and some jewelry went missing last night. Should I hire a private investigator 🕵️?
🕵️ Images
Check out how the emoji appears on different devices and platforms:
🕵️ Gender Versions
There are two other gender versions besides the detective emoji:
🕵️ Skin Tone Versions
The detective emoji is also available in the following skin tone variants:
🕵️ Emoji Support and Compatibility
Android 6.0.1
Microsoft
Windows 10
(First Release)
🕵️ Image History
Android 4.3 Jelly Bean: ❌ Android 4.4 KitKat: ❌ Android 5.1 Lollipop: ❌ Android 10.0: ✅ Android 11.0: ✅ Android 12L: ✅ | MicrosoftMozillaOpenMojiTwitter / X |
🕵️ Word Associations with the "Detective" Emoji
The 🕵️ is often associated with: inquiry, spying, private investigator, surveillance, mystery, case, sleuth, detective and investigation.
🕵️ Detective Emoji In Most Popular Languages
Discover the name of this emoji in various languages:
| Language | Emoji Name |
|---|---|
| Arabic | شخص يحقّق |
| Chinese | 侦探 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 偵探 |
| French | détective |
| German | Detektiv(in) |
| Hindi | जासूस |
| Italian | detective |
| Japanese | 探偵 |
| Korean | 탐정 |
| Portuguese | detetive |
| Spanish | detective |
| Turkish | dedektif |
| Source: Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) v48 | |
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Complete List of 🕵️ Translations
| Language | Emoji Name |
|---|---|
| A | |
| Afrikaans | speurder |
| Albanian | detektiv |
| Amharic | መርማሪ ፖሊስ |
| Arabic | شخص يحقّق |
| Armenian | խուզարկու |
| Assamese | গুপ্তচৰ |
| Azerbaijani | detektiv |
| B | |
| Bangla | গোয়েন্দা |
| Basque | detektibea |
| Belarusian | дэтэктыў |
| Bosnian | detektiv |
| Bulgarian | детектив |
| Burmese | စုံထောက် |
| C | |
| Cantonese (Simplified) | 侦探 |
| Catalan | detectiu |
| Cherokee | ᎤᎦᏛᏂᏙᎯ |
| Chinese | 侦探 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 偵探 |
| Chinese (Traditional, Hong Kong SAR China) | 偵探 |
| Croatian | detektiv |
| Czech | detektiv |
| D | |
| Danish | detektiv |
| Dutch | detective |
| E | |
| English | detective |
| Estonian | detektiiv |
| F | |
| Faroese | detektivur |
| Filipino | imbestigador |
| Finnish | etsivä |
| French | détective |
| G | |
| Galician | detective |
| Georgian | დეტექტივი |
| German | Detektiv(in) |
| Greek | ντετέκτιβ |
| Gujarati | જાસૂસ |
| H | |
| Hausa | si’aidi |
| Hebrew | בלש |
| Hindi | जासूस |
| Hungarian | detektív |
| I | |
| Icelandic | spæjari |
| Igbo | nchọpụta |
| Indonesian | detektif |
| Irish | bleachtaire |
| Italian | detective |
| J | |
| Japanese | 探偵 |
| Javanese | dhetektif |
| K | |
| Kalaallisut | detektiv |
| Kannada | ಪತ್ತೆದಾರ |
| Kazakh | детектив |
| Khmer | ប៉ូលីសស៊ើបអង្កេត |
| Kinyarwanda | umugenzuzi |
| Konkani | गुप्तहेर |
| Korean | 탐정 |
| Kyrgyz | детектив |
| L | |
| Lao | ນັກສືບ |
| Latvian | detektīvs |
| Lithuanian | detektyvas |
| Luxembourgish | Detektiv(in) |
| M | |
| Macedonian | детектив(ка) |
| Malay | detektif |
| Malayalam | കുറ്റാന്വേഷകൻ |
| Maltese | ditektiv |
| Māori | kaikimihara |
| Marathi | गुप्तचर |
| Mongolian | мөрдөгч |
| N | |
| Nepali | गुप्तचर |
| Nigerian Pidgin | Ditẹ́ktiv |
| Norwegian Bokmål | detektiv |
| Norwegian Nynorsk | detektiv |
| O | |
| Odia | ଡିଟେକ୍ଟିଭ୍ |
| P | |
| Pashto / Pushto | کشفي |
| Persian | کارآگاه |
| Polish | detektyw |
| Portuguese | detetive |
| Portuguese (Portugal) | detetive |
| Punjabi | ਜਾਸੂਸ ਵਿਅਕਤੀ |
| Q | |
| Quechua | qhamiyaq |
| R | |
| Romanian | detectiv |
| Russian | детектив |
| S | |
| Scottish Gaelic | lorgaire |
| Serbian (Cyrillic) | инспектор |
| Serbian (Cyrillic, Bosnia & Herzegovina) | инспектор |
| Serbian (Latin) | inspektor |
| Serbian (Latin, Bosnia & Herzegovina) | inspektor |
| Sindhi | جاسوس |
| Sinhala | රහස් පරීක්ෂකයා |
| Slovak | detektív |
| Slovenian | preiskovalec |
| Somali | dambi-baare |
| Spanish | detective |
| Spanish (Latin American Spanish) | detective |
| Spanish (Mexican Spanish) | detective |
| Spanish (United States) | detective |
| Swahili | mpelelezi |
| Swedish | detektiv |
| T | |
| Tajik | детектив |
| Tamil | துப்பறியும் நிபுணர் |
| Telugu | పరిశోధకుడు |
| Thai | นักสืบ |
| Tongan | tokotaha fakatotolo |
| Turkish | dedektif |
| Turkmen | aňtawçy |
| U | |
| Ukrainian | детектив |
| Urdu | جاسوس |
| Uyghur / Uighur | رازۋېدچىك |
| Uzbek | izquvar |
| V | |
| Vietnamese | thám tử |
| W | |
| Welsh | ditectif |
| Wolof | detektif |
| X | |
| Xhosa | umcuphi |
| Y | |
| Yoruba | ọ̀tẹlèmúyé |
| Z | |
| Zulu | umseshi |
| Source: Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) v48 | |
🕵️ Emoji Codes for Developers
| Shortcode (Discord) | :detective: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :detective: | |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :sleuth_or_spy: | |
| HTML Dec | 🕵️ | |
| HTML Hex | 🕵️ | |
| CSS | \01F575 \FE0F | |
| C, C++ & Python | \U0001f575\uFE0F | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83D\uDD75\uFE0F | |
| Perl | \x{1F575}\x{FE0F} | |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F575}\u{FE0F} | |
| Punycode | xn--fy8h | |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%95%B5%EF%B8%8F |
🕵️ Unicode Data
| Unicode Code Point(s) |
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| Unicode Version | Unicode 7.0 |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 1.0 |
| Proposals |






