👩Woman Emoji
Generally, it just means “woman. ” People use it to identify a female person in a text message.
The 👩 emoji represents a woman or female person.
- Unicode
- U+1F469
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :woman:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 👩 Woman emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 2 of them.
Woman emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the woman as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Woman emoji skin tones
👩 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Woman emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :woman:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F469.
How to type the 👩 Woman emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F469 when there is no key at all.
Woman emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Woman emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👩, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👩 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the woman and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 👩 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F469, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
👩 vs 👩🦱 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman
Code: U+1F469 · added 2010
Shortcode: :woman:
Generally, it just means “woman.
Unicode name: Woman Curly Hair
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9B1 · added 2018
Shortcode: :curly_haired_woman:
Usually, it just means a woman with curly hair.
Where the 👩 Woman emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F469 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👩 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6F0, KDDI au E4FA, SoftBank E005.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Woman was approved as U+1F469 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👩 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.