woman with veil: medium-dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F470 1F3FE 200D 2640
Description
An emoji representing a bride with dark skin, depicted as a woman in a wedding dress, veil, and often holding a bouquet.
Group:
People & Body > person-role
Status:
minimally-qualified
Emotion:
Joy, celebration, love, commitment, excitement, anticipation. Typically expresses happiness and the significant life event of marriage.
Backstory
The 'Bride' (👰) emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The skin tone modifier (🏾) was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, and the ZWJ sequence for 'Woman' (♀️) was added later to specify the gender clearly, becoming 'Bride: Dark Skin Tone' (👰🏾♀️). It reflects the growing demand for more inclusive and diverse emoji representations of people.
Usage Examples
- Announcing an engagement or wedding: 'We're getting married! 👰🏾♀️💍'
- Congratulating a friend: 'So happy for you! You'll be a beautiful bride! 👰🏾♀️'
- Planning wedding details: 'My wedding dress fitting is next week! 👰🏾♀️👗'
- Expressing joy over a wedding invitation: 'Can't wait for your big day! 👰🏾♀️🎉'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Strongly associated with weddings and conventional marriage ceremonies. Represents the bride on her special day.
East Asian culture:
Also represents brides and weddings, but the visual style of wedding ceremonies and attire might differ from the emoji's default appearance. Still conveys similar emotions of joy and new beginnings.