Woman guard: light skin tone Emoji

People

A female guard wearing a traditional tall, black bearskin cap. This version features a light skin tone and is designed to represent a woman serving in the ceremonial ranks of the British military.

Usage Context

Used to discuss British landmarks, the monarchy, or royal ceremonies. It is frequently sent when talking about travel to London or visiting Buckingham Palace. People often pair it with 🇬🇧 to show national pride or with 💂 to depict a mix of personnel.

History

The female guard was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of a major initiative to introduce gender-inclusive options for occupations and roles that were previously represented exclusively by male figures.

Details

Glyph

💂🏻‍♀

Unicode

U+1F482 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f482_1f3fb_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC82;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

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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