woman: blond hair
Unicode: 1F471 200D 2640
Description
A person with blonde hair, specifically a woman, formed by the combination of 'person with blonde hair' (1F471) and 'female sign' (2640 FE0F) with a zero-width joiner (200D). This sequence explicitly depicts a blonde woman.
Group:
People & Body > person
Status:
minimally-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral representation of a blonde woman. Can be used for identification, description, or as a character. The emotion conveyed depends on the context of its use alongside other emojis or text.
Backstory
The base 'person with blonde hair' emoji (1F471) was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The capability to specify gender and skin tone for many human emojis was later added through various Unicode updates, using zero-width joiners (ZWJ) to combine base emojis with gender or skin tone modifiers.
Usage Examples
- Describing someone: 'She's a beautiful blonde woman. 👩🦳'
- Character representation: 'Look at the new character in the game! 👩🦳 She's so cool.'
- Identifying a group: 'The team has a blonde woman and two brunettes. 👩🦳👩🦰👩🦰'
- In narratives: 'The story is about a brave blonde woman. 👩🦳'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Commonly used to represent women with blonde hair, often associated with various stereotypes depending on context (e.g., 'blonde bombshell', 'dumb blonde', or simply descriptive).
East Asian culture:
Less prominent in terms of specific stereotypes, often used descriptively for non-Asian women or characters in media.
Global usage:
Primarily used for descriptive purposes to specify gender and hair color. The 'person' base emoji is often used for gender-neutral representation, while the specific male/female forms are used when gender is relevant.