People & Body · Emoji 5.0
🧙♀️Woman Mage Emoji
Generally, it just means “witch” or “magical woman.” People use it to add a fun, slightly silly vibe to their messages.
The 🧙♀️ emoji represents a woman dressed as a witch or mage.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D9 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :female_
mage: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧙♀️ Woman Mage emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 12 of them.
People also look for it as spell emoji.
02 — Platforms
Woman Mage emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the woman mage 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 Mage 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 Mage 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_mage:.
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+1F9D9.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧙♀️ Woman Mage emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Woman Mage emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman mage 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 Mage emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman mage 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 mage and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🧙♀️ means in other countries
Reads as pure fantasy or RPG flavor almost everywhere it’s sent, but “witch” carries real weight in a few specific places.
a standard character-class icon there, with no baggage attached to it at all
a playful costume reference that’s purely seasonal in nature
witchcraft accusations still lead to real social consequences there, so calling an actual person a witch isn’t taken as a joke
Before you send it: Totally fine for fantasy or Halloween talk; don’t aim it at a real person as an accusation, even jokingly.
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 Mage
Code: U+1F9D9 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2017
Shortcode: :female_mage:
Generally, it just means “witch” or “magical woman.”
Unicode name: Mage
Code: U+1F9D9 · added 2017
Shortcode: :mage:
Generally, the 🧙 emoji just means “wizard” or “magic.”
13 — History
Where the 🧙♀️ Woman Mage emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the woman mage to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F9D9 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 Mage was approved as U+1F9D9 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F 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. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ