🧑‍🩰 Ballet Dancer Emoji — Meaning, Copy & Paste, Codes

Q: How do you reply to the 🧑🩰 emoji?

If someone sends you 🧑🩰, you could reply with: “Show me a video!”, “How was the recital?”, or “So graceful.” Nice.

Q: How do I copy and paste the 🧑🩰 emoji?

Tap the copy button at the top of this page — 🧑🩰 goes straight to your clipboard and pastes into Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Discord or any text field. You can also copy its shortcode :ballet_dancer: for Slack and Discord.

01 — Meaning

What does the Ballet Dancer emoji mean?

In plain english

A person in ballet pose wearing pointe shoes. Used to talk about ballet, dance recitals, grace, or someone showing off some serious poise.

sits in hand emojis, where it is listed next to everything used the same way. It also turns up in yellow emojis.

Where it comes from

One of the newer emoji, added in 2025 to round out the dance category beyond the salsa-style dancer. It shows a gender-neutral figure mid-pose in a tutu and pointe shoes, referencing classical ballet rather than dance in general. Used for recitals or class updates.

Also known as

People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.

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02 — Platforms

Ballet Dancer emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X

The character is always U+1F9D1 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your ballet dancer looks like to the person on the other side.

AppleiPhone, iPad, macOS

GoogleAndroid, Gmail, Chrome

Twitter / XX, Discord, Twemoji apps

OpenMojiOpen-source, design systems

See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.

03 — Copy & codes

Ballet Dancer 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 :ballet_dancer:.

All emoji copy and paste →

In your code

Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9D1.

04 — How to type

How to type the Ballet Dancer emoji

No picker to hand? The ballet dancer can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.

iPhone & iPad

Tap the smiley or globe key at the bottom-left of the keyboard, then search “ballet dancer”. No emoji key? Settings → General → Keyboard → Keyboards → Add New Keyboard → Emoji.

Android

On Gboard tap the smiley key, or long-press the Enter or comma key. On Samsung Keyboard the emoji button sits behind the gear icon.

Windows & Mac

Windows: press Win + . for the emoji panel. Mac: Control + Command + Space. Then type “ballet dancer”.

Slack & Discord

Type the shortcode :ballet_dancer: and it converts to

as you send. The full set is on the Discord emoji page.

Websites & code

In HTML use 🧑‍🩰, in CSS \1F9D1\200D\1FA70, in JavaScript \u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1FA70}.

No picker to hand? The online emoji keyboard works in any browser, and every character on the site is listed on emoji copy and paste.

05 — Download

Ballet Dancer emoji PNG and SVG

Grab the ballet dancer as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 4 of them.

Emoji PNG library →

Apple PNG · 64px

Google PNG · 160px

Twitter / X SVG vector

OpenMoji SVG vector

06 — Combinations

Ballet Dancer emoji combinations

Ready-made combos built around ballet dancer for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.

All combinations →

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Y2K ballet dancer combos

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.

07 — In conversation

What means from a girl or a guy

The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.

From a girl

A woman sending this is usually talking about an actual ballet class, recital, or performance, hers or someone else’s. It can also be a lighthearted way to say she handled something with unexpected grace or flair.

From a guy

A guy using this is typically referencing a real ballet event, maybe a kid’s recital or a show he watched, rather than himself. It occasionally shows up as a joke about doing something surprisingly gracefully.

How to reply

If someone sends you

, you could reply with: “Show me a video!”, “How was the recital?”, or “So graceful.” Nice.

Used in a sentence

08 — Apps

What means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord

One code point, several readings — where the ballet dancer lands changes how it is taken.

TikTok & Instagram

A person in ballet pose wearing pointe shoes. Used to talk about ballet, dance recitals, grace, or someone showing off some serious poise. In comments and captions it is read the same way — the tone comes from what it sits next to.

WhatsApp draws

with Apple-style artwork on every phone, so it looks identical for both sides, and holding it lets you pick a skin tone. A message with only

in it is shown enlarged.

Discord & Slack

Both accept the shortcode :ballet_dancer:. Discord renders Twemoji, so

looks different there than on your phone.

Outlook & email

Outlook has no emoji picker on desktop — press Win + . or Control + Command + Space inside the message body, or paste

from the copy button above.

09 — Related

Emojis similar to the Ballet Dancer emoji

Same family (person-activity) — often confused with ballet dancer or used alongside it.

People & Body →

🤳Selfie 💪Flexed Biceps 🦾Mechanical Arm 🦵Leg 🦿Mechanical Leg 🦶Foot 👣Footprints

Fingerprint 👂Ear 🦻Ear with Hearing Aid 👃Nose 🫀Anatomical Heart

Collections belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:

hand emojis yellow emojis

10 — Difference

vs 🩰 — what is the difference?

Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.

Ballet Dancer

Unicode name: Ballet Dancer

Code: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1FA70 · added 2025

Shortcode: :ballet_dancer:

A person in ballet pose wearing pointe shoes.

🩰 Ballet Shoes

Unicode name: Ballet Shoes

Code: U+1FA70 · added 2019

Shortcode: :ballet_shoes:

Generally, the 🩰 emoji means you’re thinking about ballet, dance, or something that’s graceful and beautiful.

Open 🩰 Ballet Shoes →

11 — History

Where the Ballet Dancer emoji came from

It arrived with the 17.0 release of the standard, which dates the ballet dancer to 2025.

2025

Added to the standard

Ballet Dancer was approved as U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1FA70 and shipped in Emoji 17.0 (2025). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.

Today

Drawn 4 different ways

Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.

12 — FAQ

Ballet Dancer emoji — questions people actually ask

What does the

Ballet Dancer emoji mean?

A person in ballet pose wearing pointe shoes. Used to talk about ballet, dance recitals, grace, or someone showing off some serious poise.

What does

mean from a girl?

A woman sending this is usually talking about an actual ballet class, recital, or performance, hers or someone else’s. It can also be a lighthearted way to say she handled something with unexpected grace or flair.

What does

mean from a guy?

A guy using this is typically referencing a real ballet event, maybe a kid’s recital or a show he watched, rather than himself. It occasionally shows up as a joke about doing something surprisingly gracefully.

How do you reply to the

emoji?

If someone sends you

, you could reply with: “Show me a video!”, “How was the recital?”, or “So graceful.” Nice.

What else is the

emoji called?

Ballet Dancer is the official Unicode name, but people search for it as “ballet emoji”, “dancer emoji” and more. They all refer to the same character, U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1FA70.

What is the Unicode code for

?

The Ballet Dancer emoji is U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1FA70, added in Emoji 17.0 (2025). In HTML you can write it as 🧑‍🩰, and in CSS as \1F9D1\200D\1FA70.

How do I copy and paste the

emoji?

Tap the copy button at the top of this page —

goes straight to your clipboard and pastes into Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Discord or any text field. You can also copy its shortcode :ballet_dancer: for Slack and Discord.

Does

look the same on every phone?

No. Ballet Dancer is drawn separately by each vendor — Apple, Google, Twitter / X and OpenMoji all ship their own artwork for U+1F9D1. The character you send is identical; only the picture changes.