palms up together: medium-light skin tone
Unicode: 1F932 1F3FC
Description
An emoji depicting a person, specifically a grandmother, with medium-light skin tone, showcasing gray hair and a warm, kind expression. Grandmothers are typically associated with wisdom, care, and love.
Group:
People & Body > hands
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Represents warmth, wisdom, care, love, tradition, and familial bonds. It often evokes feelings of comfort and affection.
Backstory
This emoji, 'Grandparent', was introduced in Unicode 10.0 (2017). The specific 'Grandmother' concept is conveyed through context and common visual associations, often using the woman's gender and age cues. The skin tone modifier (1F3FC) was added to allow for more diversity in representation.
Usage Examples
- Wishing my grandmother a happy birthday! 👵🏼💖
- Spent the weekend with my beloved grandmother 👵🏼, she's so wise.
- Feeling nostalgic for my grandmother's cooking. 👵🏼👵🏼
- My grandmother always has the best stories. 👵🏼📖
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Often symbolizes a loving and supportive matriarch, provider of comfort and home-cooked meals, and a source of family history.
East Asian culture:
Can represent a respected elder, often a figure of authority within the family alongside love and care, sometimes associated with traditional practices and storytelling.