People & Body · Emoji 4.0
🙅♀️Woman Gesturing No Emoji
Usually, it just means "no." People use it in texts to politely or emphatically refuse something.
The 🙅♀️ emoji shows a woman making a clear “no” gesture with her hand.
- Unicode
- U+1F645 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :woman-
gesturing- no: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🙅♀️ Woman Gesturing No emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
02 — Platforms
Woman Gesturing No emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the woman gesturing no 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 Gesturing No 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 Gesturing No emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :woman-gesturing-no:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F645.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🙅♀️ Woman Gesturing No emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Woman Gesturing No emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman gesturing no 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 Gesturing No emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman gesturing no 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 🙅♀️ means in other countries
Same crossed-arm “no” signal as the plain figure — the gendered version doesn’t change the meaning.
Reads as a firm no, refusal, or “that’s not allowed”, with no ambiguity.
Matches the local batsu gesture for “wrong” or “no” used on quiz shows and signage.
Before you send it: Use it whenever you’d say “no” bluntly — the gesture carries no hidden or regional twist.
10 — Apps
What 🙅♀️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the woman gesturing no lands changes how it is taken.
12 — Difference
🙅♀️ vs 🙇♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman Gesturing No
Code: U+1F645 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-gesturing-no:
Usually, it just means "no."
Unicode name: Woman Bowing
Code: U+1F647 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :woman-bowing:
Generally, 🙇♀️ means you’re deeply sorry or expressing a lot of respect.
13 — History
Where the 🙅♀️ Woman Gesturing No emoji came from
It arrived with the 4.0 release of the standard, which dates the woman gesturing no to 2016.
Same character every time — U+1F645 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 Gesturing No was approved as U+1F645 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