princess: medium skin tone
Unicode: 1F478 1F3FD
Description
A princess with medium skin tone, typically depicted with a crown or tiara, and often long hair, conveying regality or fantasy.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Represents royalty, fantasy, femininity, dreams, or being pampered/special.
Backstory
The 👸 (Princess) emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010), representing a generic 'princess' figure. The 🏻 (Medium Skin Tone) modifier was added in Unicode 8.0 (2015) to allow for more diverse representation of skin tones, allowing users to apply it to a variety of human emojis.
Usage Examples
- Feeling regal: 'Today I feel like a princess! 👸🏽'
- Talking about fairy tales: 'I'm reading a story about a brave princess. 👸🏽'
- Referring to someone special: 'Look at my little princess! 👸🏽'
- Playfully demanding: 'Treat me like a princess! 👸🏽'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Strongly associated with fairy tale princesses like those from Disney, signifying grace, beauty, and often a 'happily ever after'.
East Asian culture:
Can also be used similarly to Western culture, but sometimes with a more playful or cute connotation related to 'princess' culture.