People & Body · Emoji 5.0
🧝♀️Woman Elf Emoji
Basically, it’s a cute way to represent a fairy or elf character. People use it to add a bit of fantasy or fun to their messages.
The 🧝♀️ emoji represents a little woman dressed as an elf.
- Unicode
- U+1F9DD U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :female_
elf: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧝♀️ Woman Elf emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 9 of them.
02 — Platforms
Woman Elf emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9DD. 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 Elf 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 Elf 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_elf:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9DD.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧝♀️ Woman Elf emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9DD when there is no key at all.
06 — Download
Woman Elf emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the woman elf 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 Elf emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman elf 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
In Icelandic folklore hidden elves are treated as real, not whimsical — this reads more literally there than as a costume reference.
Huldufólk (hidden elves) are taken seriously enough to occasionally reroute roads and construction.
Signals a noble, otherworldly character archetype from high fantasy.
Can blend with 'elf' as Santa's helper in December messages.
Before you send it: Fine as a playful fantasy tag, but skip the joke framing with someone discussing real Icelandic folklore.
10 — Apps
What 🧝♀️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9DD, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — Difference
🧝♀️ vs 🧝 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman Elf
Code: U+1F9DD U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2017
Shortcode: :female_elf:
Basically, it’s a cute way to represent a fairy or elf character.
Unicode name: Elf
Code: U+1F9DD · added 2017
Shortcode: :elf:
Generally, the elf emoji just means "elf."
13 — History
Where the 🧝♀️ Woman Elf emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 5.0, the woman elf has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 9.
Same character every time — U+1F9DD 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 Elf was approved as U+1F9DD 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