Woman health worker: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned woman wearing a white medical head mirror or stethoscope, representing a professional healthcare worker. This emoji combines the female gender marker with medical gear to denote a practitioner in the field.

Usage Context

Used to discuss medical appointments, hospital visits, or to show appreciation for frontline healthcare staff. It functions as a gender-specific alternative to the generic 🧑‍⚕️ or the male version 👨‍⚕️ when specifying the identity of a doctor, nurse, or therapist.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences in Unicode 8.0, which allowed developers to combine existing emojis to create diverse character combinations. The skin tone modifiers were added in Unicode 8.0 to bring greater representation to the growing library of professional character emojis.

Details

Glyph

👩🏿‍⚕

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2695

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3ff_200d_2695:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍⚕

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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