🧕Woman with Headscarf Emoji
Generally, the 🧕 emoji is used to represent a Muslim woman or someone who wears a headscarf. It’s a visual shorthand for that identity.
The 🧕 emoji represents a woman wearing a headscarf, most often a hijab.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D5
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :person_with_headscarf:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🧕 Woman with Headscarf emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 8 of them.
Woman with Headscarf emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9D5. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Woman with Headscarf emoji skin tones
🧕 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Woman with Headscarf 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 :person_with_headscarf:.
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+1F9D5.
How to type the 🧕 Woman with Headscarf emoji
No picker to hand? The woman with headscarf can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Woman with Headscarf emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman with headscarf as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Woman with Headscarf emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman with headscarf for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 🧕, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 🧕 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🧕 means in other countries
Widely understood as depicting the hijab, and used by Muslim women themselves as respectful self-representation.
Self-representation for hijab-wearing women, added after years of advocacy for it
Read simply as “woman wearing a headscarf,” with modesty or faith implied broadly
Turns offensive fast if paired with sarcasm or used to caricature someone’s religion
Before you send it: Fine as a respectful representation; never pair it with joking captions about someone’s religion or dress.
What 🧕 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9D5, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🧕 vs 👩🚀 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman with Headscarf
Code: U+1F9D5 · added 2017
Shortcode: :person_with_headscarf:
Generally, the 🧕 emoji is used to represent a Muslim woman or someone who wears a headscarf.
Unicode name: Woman Astronaut
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+1F680 · added 2016
Shortcode: :female-astronaut:
Generally, it just means a woman who is an astronaut.
Where the 🧕 Woman with Headscarf emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the woman with headscarf to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F9D5 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 Headscarf was approved as U+1F9D5 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.