Woman getting massage: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with medium-dark skin depicted with closed eyes and hands massaging her temples. She appears to be receiving a head massage, indicated by the hands positioned on the sides of her head.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to signal relaxation, a trip to the spa, or the relief of a headache or stress. It is frequently sent when someone is treating themselves to a self-care day or recovering from a high-pressure situation, often accompanied by 💆 or 🧘🏾‍♀.

History

The base massage emoji was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The gender-specific version and skin tone modifiers were added in later releases as part of a broader push by the Unicode Consortium to increase human representation and diversity across the emoji keyboard.

Details

Glyph

💆🏾‍♀

Unicode

U+1F486 U+1F3FE U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f486_1f3fe_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC86;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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