Ballet dancer: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A person with medium skin tone depicted in a classic ballet pose, balancing on one leg with their arms gracefully arched above their head. The figure wears standard dance attire, highlighting the precision and strength required for the sport.

Usage Context

Used to discuss dance classes, professional performances, or to celebrate someone showing elegance and poise under pressure. It is frequently sent alongside music or performance-related icons like 🩰 or 🎶 to denote a love for the arts.

History

The base dancer emoji was introduced in early versions of Unicode to represent performing arts, but the skin tone modifiers were added in later updates to ensure more inclusive representation of dancers across global cultures. The ballet-specific variation emerged as interest in documenting specific athletic and artistic movements grew within mobile messaging.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🩰

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1FA70

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1fa70:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83E;&#xDE70;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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