woman: medium skin tone
Unicode: 1F469 1F3FD
Description
A woman emoji with a medium skin tone.
Group:
People & Body > person
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Represents a female individual with medium skin tone. Can be used in various contexts to denote a woman.
Backstory
The 'Woman' emoji (U+1F469) was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The skin tone modifiers, including Medium Skin Tone (U+1F3FD), were added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, allowing for greater diversity in emoji representations. This specific combination allows for the depiction of a woman with a medium skin tone.
Usage Examples
- Identifying a female person: 'She is a strong woman. 👩🏽'
- Referring to gender: 'The team has a new member 👩🏽.'
- Describing appearance: 'The lady with brown hair 👩🏽.'
- General representation: 'Looking forward to meeting new people. 👨🏼👩🏽' (Used with other emojis to show diversity)
Cultural Differences
General:
The combination of the woman emoji and skin tone modifier is widely understood across cultures to represent a woman of that specific skin tone. Interpretations are generally consistent.
Specific contexts:
Its meaning can vary depending on the surrounding text and other emojis, but the core representation remains a woman.