👧🏼
girl: medium-light skin tone
Unicode: 1F467 1F3FC
Description
A person with long, flowing hair, typically depicted as a woman, with light-medium skin tone.
Group:
People & Body > person
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Typically represents a woman, girl, or simply a person with long hair. The light-medium skin tone modifier clarifies the ethnicity.
Backstory
The 'Woman' emoji (🧑) was part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The skin tone modifiers, like Light-Medium Skin Tone (🏽), were added later in Unicode 8.0 (2015) to allow for more diverse representation of human emojis, combined with the base emoji through a zero width joiner (ZWJ).
Usage Examples
- Referring to a female individual: 'She is a great scientist 🧑🏽'.
- Describing someone with long hair: 'The person with long hair 🧑🏽'.
- In a family context: 'My sister 🧑🏽 is coming over'.
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Frequently used to represent a woman or a feminine individual.
East Asian culture:
Similar usage, often representing a woman or a young girl.