Woman: white hair: light skin tone Emoji

People

A portrait of a woman with short, straight white or silver hair and a pale complexion. It depicts a mature person with a clear emphasis on natural aging.

Usage Context

Used to represent an older woman, a grandmother figure, or characters in stories with grey hair. It is frequently sent when discussing family, wisdom, or aging gracefully. You might see it grouped with other demographic-specific icons like 👴 or 👵 to illustrate family trees or multigenerational gatherings.

History

This emoji was made possible by the introduction of ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences in Unicode 10.0 in 2017. Before this update, users could only express age or gender through generic base characters; this sequence allowed for the granular customization of skin tone and hair color that is standard in modern messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍🦳

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+1F9B3

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_1f9b3:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB3;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person

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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