People & Body · Emoji 13.0
👰♀️Woman with Veil Emoji
Generally, the 👰♀️ emoji means someone is thinking about or referencing a bride or a wedding. It's often used to express excitement or congratulations about a marriage.
The 👰♀️ emoji is a bride emoji.
- Unicode
- U+1F470 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2020
- Shortcode
- :woman_
with_ veil: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👰♀️ Woman with Veil emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 4 of them.
02 — Platforms
Woman with Veil emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the woman with veil as 5 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Woman with Veil emoji skin tones
👰♀️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Woman with Veil emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :woman_with_veil:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the woman with veil, code point U+1F470.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👰♀️ Woman with Veil emoji
No picker to hand? The woman with veil can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Woman with Veil emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman with veil as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Woman with Veil emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman with veil for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 👰♀️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the woman with veil and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 👰♀️ means in other countries
Veil on a woman, unambiguously reads as “bride” — the gendered version removes essentially all the guesswork.
standard, warm, and exactly the intended meaning behind sending this one
sending it out of nowhere in a new relationship reads as a marriage joke, can feel like too much too fast
the veil-and-white imagery doesn’t match traditions like a red qipao or a sari, so it reads more as generically “wedding”
Before you send it: Great for real wedding news; go easy on it as a joke early on in a relationship.
10 — Apps
What 👰♀️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F470, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — Difference
👰♀️ vs 🤰 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman with Veil
Code: U+1F470 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2020
Shortcode: :woman_with_veil:
Generally, the 👰♀️ emoji means someone is thinking about or referencing a bride or a wedding.
Unicode name: Pregnant Woman
Code: U+1F930 · added 2016
Shortcode: :pregnant_woman:
Generally, the 🤰 emoji simply represents pregnancy and the excitement of starting a family.
13 — History
Where the 👰♀️ Woman with Veil emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 13.0, the woman with veil has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 6.
Same character every time — U+1F470 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F 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.
Woman with Veil was approved as U+1F470 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 13.0 (2020). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👰♀️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ