Woman getting massage: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with a medium skin tone closing her eyes in relaxation while hands massage her temples. She is shown from the shoulders up, highlighting the soothing nature of a professional head or scalp treatment.

Usage Context

Used to signal self-care, a need for a break, or a visit to a spa or salon. It is frequently sent after a stressful day or when venting about work to friends, often paired with 💆 or 🧘🏽‍♀️ to emphasize a focus on wellness and stress relief.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as a gender-neutral massage figure, with the specific woman variant and skin tone modifiers arriving in 2016 as part of the push to bring more diverse human representations to digital messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

💆🏽‍♀

Unicode

U+1F486 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f486_1f3fd_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC86;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍♀

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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