Teacher 🧑‍🏫
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The teacher emoji, depicting a person with a textbook alongside a school building. This emoji is used to express teachers, educators, and school staff. Common usage includes 'Want to be a teacher🧑‍🏫' 'School teacher🧑‍🏫' or 'Thank you teacher🧑‍🏫' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 12.1 in 2019 as part of the profession emoji series.

Teachers are crucial professionals who pass on knowledge at educational institutions including elementary schools, middle schools, high schools, universities, vocational schools, cram schools, and prep schools. In Japan, teachers are called 'sensei' and respected as figures supporting children's growth. Famous teachers worldwide include Anne Sullivan (Helen Keller's teacher), the recipients of the Global Teacher Prize, and Japanese educators like Joseph Hardy Neesima (founder of Doshisha University) and Yukichi Fukuzawa (founder of Keio University). The emoji is used in posts about World Teachers' Day (October 5), graduation ceremonies, entrance ceremonies, PTA activities, online classes, and remote learning.