People & Body · Emoji 11.0
🦸♀️Woman Superhero Emoji
Generally, it means someone is being portrayed as a hero, or they embody heroic qualities. It’s often used to show support or encouragement.
The 🦸♀️ emoji represents a woman dressed as a superhero.
- Unicode
- U+1F9B8 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :female_
superhero: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🦸♀️ Woman Superhero emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as superhero emoji.
02 — Platforms
Woman Superhero emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9B8. 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 Superhero 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 Superhero 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 :female_superhero:.
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+1F9B8.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🦸♀️ Woman Superhero emoji
No picker to hand? The woman superhero can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
06 — Download
Woman Superhero emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Woman Superhero emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman superhero 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
Cape-and-mask icon for a female hero, reads as straightforward hype more than any specific real-world reference.
common for “you saved the day,” functioning as a pure, uncomplicated compliment
ties to specific comic or movie characters depending on who’s actually talking
used for a child dressing up, or being praised for genuinely good behavior
Before you send it: Safe, cheerful compliment to send in almost any context you can think of sending it in.
10 — Apps
What 🦸♀️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
12 — Difference
🦸♀️ vs 🦸 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman Superhero
Code: U+1F9B8 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2018
Shortcode: :female_superhero:
Generally, it means someone is being portrayed as a hero, or they embody heroic qualities.
Unicode name: Superhero
Code: U+1F9B8 · added 2018
Shortcode: :superhero:
Generally, 🦸 means someone is acting like a superhero.
13 — History
Where the 🦸♀️ Woman Superhero emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 11.0, the woman superhero has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 8.
Same character every time — U+1F9B8 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 Superhero was approved as U+1F9B8 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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