🧍🏿♀
woman standing: dark skin tone
Unicode: 1F9CD 1F3FF 200D 2640
Description
A woman in a standing position, wearing a simple outfit, with dark skin tone.
Group:
People & Body > person-activity
Status:
minimally-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral, often used to represent a person in a general sense, or to indicate someone is standing.
Backstory
This emoji sequence combines 'Woman' (1F9CD), a skin tone modifier (1F3FF), a zero width joiner (200D), and the female sign (2640). The base 'standing person' emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 (2016), and the skin tone modifier allows for various skin color representations, while the female sign clarifies the gender.
Usage Examples
- Representing a female character in a story: 'The brave adventurer 👩🏿 stand before the dragon.'
- Indicating someone is waiting: 'She's been 👩🏿 for an hour.'
- In health or exercise contexts: 'Stay strong and 👩🏿.'
- As a general placeholder for a woman with dark skin tone: 'We need a 👩🏿 for this role.'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Frequently used as a generic human representation, or in contexts requiring a standing female figure.
East Asian culture:
Similar usage, often seen in narratives or character descriptions.