People & Body · Emoji 4.0
👳♀️Woman Wearing Turban Emoji
It usually just means “woman wearing a turban.” People use it to represent someone who identifies with or is associated with Sikh culture.
The woman in a turban emoji (👳♀️) represents a woman wearing a turban.
- Unicode
- U+1F473 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :woman-
wearing- turban: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 👳♀️ Woman Wearing Turban emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
02 — Platforms
Woman Wearing Turban emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F473. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Woman Wearing Turban 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 Wearing Turban 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-wearing-turban:.
All emoji copy and paste →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+1F473.
05 — How to type
How to type the 👳♀️ Woman Wearing Turban emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Woman Wearing Turban emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman wearing turban 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 Wearing Turban emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman wearing turban 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 wearing turban and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 👳♀️ means in other countries
Unicode built this to represent the Sikh turban, but it’s widely misused as generic “Middle Eastern” headwear.
Represents the dastar, a core article of faith, not a costume or generic look
Often used loosely to mean “traditional” or “Middle Eastern,” which is a real mismatch
Careless use in this context can end up looking like religious profiling
Before you send it: Use it when you actually mean a Sikh turban; don’t reach for it as a stand-in for hijab or the Middle East.
10 — Apps
What 👳♀️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F473, 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 Wearing Turban
Code: U+1F473 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-wearing-turban:
It usually just means “woman wearing a turban.”
Unicode name: Person Wearing Turban
Code: U+1F473 · added 2010
Shortcode: :man_with_turban:
Generally, the emoji means someone is identifying themselves as Sikh or referencing Sikh culture.
13 — History
Where the 👳♀️ Woman Wearing Turban emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F473 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 Wearing Turban was approved as U+1F473 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). 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