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

pictogram of a stick figure

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.

dakab
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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 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:

(Use Ctrl++ or off-site styling to distinguish details.)

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

Screenshots of the “person” pictographs above on different platforms.

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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 :-)

웃, UTF-16: C6 C3
웃, UTF-8: EC 9B 83

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paxdiablo
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    That *does* look like the OP’s image, while it does not maintain any semantic relevance (which might be OK). Google Translate translates 웃 to “smiling”. – dakab Oct 21 '15 at 07:43
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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>
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Niels Keurentjes
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    There’s actually plenty of other reasons why SVG was invented, but that’s a very good-looking application, even ready-to-use in HTML. – dakab Oct 21 '15 at 07:49
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    That's pretty nifty, had a play with it to get it to render 25€/person, hope you don't mind the change. In any case, I'll have to add that inline SVG stuff to my toolbox. Plus one for educating me. – paxdiablo Oct 21 '15 at 08:05
  • This is probable the best option if you need a new symbol!! But imagine that you just want to cut and paste... – jbaylina Oct 21 '15 at 09:12
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    Unfortunately the email gods don't get along with the internet gods. – Martin Jambon Jul 01 '16 at 16:51
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    Worth mentioning that this solution (in the current format) is terrible for accessibility. There is no alternative text to the SVG image, so screen readers (or web crawlers) will only read "€25 slash", which is incomplete and makes no sense. (well, using random Unicode characters it not much better, anyway) – Denilson Sá Maia Jan 06 '17 at 10:50
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Yes, there is a stick man (and stick lady) character:

stick man stick lady

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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