Woman gesturing no: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned woman with her arms crossed in front of her chest to form an 'X' shape. This gesture is the universal physical shorthand for stopping an action, denying a request, or signaling that something is prohibited.

Usage Context

Use this to politely decline an invitation, shut down a bad idea, or playfully reject a suggestion. It serves as a visual 'stop' sign in text conversations and is frequently used alongside 🙅‍♂️ or ⛔ to reinforce a boundary.

History

The base gesture originated as a standardized icon in Japanese web culture to communicate 'no' or 'incorrect' within UI menus. The modifier for dark skin tone was added in 2015 as part of the Unicode 8.0 update, which introduced the Fitzpatrick scale to provide more inclusive representation across platforms.

Details

Glyph

🙅🏿‍♀

Unicode

U+1F645 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f645_1f3ff_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE45;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-gesture

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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