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Judge 🧑‍⚖️
Copy & Meaning

JUDGE

Judge 🧑‍⚖️ Emoji Data

Emoji 🧑‍⚖️
Main MeaningJudge
UnicodeU+1F9D1 U+200D U+2696 U+FE0F
Unicode NameJUDGE

Judge 🧑‍⚖️ Emoji: Meaning & Usage

The judge emoji, depicting a person in black judicial robes alongside scales of justice. This emoji is used to express judges, the judiciary, and justice. Common usage includes 'Want to be a judge🧑‍⚖️' 'Scales of justice🧑‍⚖️' or 'Judicial decision🧑‍⚖️' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019 as part of the profession emoji series. Judges are crucial figures making judicial decisions based on law, working at various courts including district courts, family courts, high courts, and supreme courts.

In Japan, becoming a judge requires passing the bar exam and completing legal training before appointment. Iconic judges include US Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg (RBG, who became a feminist icon), Sonia Sotomayor, Sandra Day O'Connor, and Japan's first female Supreme Court Justice Yoshiko Mibuchi. Films like '12 Angry Men' and 'The Lincoln Lawyer,' and TV dramas like 'Legal High' and 'Suits' feature judicial themes. The emoji is used in posts about legal topics, courtroom dramas, and discussions of justice.

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