Woman health worker: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A woman wearing a white medical head mirror or stethoscope draped over her shoulders, depicted with a medium skin tone. This icon represents a professional woman working within the medical or healthcare field.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to discuss doctor visits, appointments, medical advice, or to celebrate the contributions of female healthcare professionals. It is frequently sent alongside 🏥 to indicate a hospital setting or 💊 when talking about medication or recovery.

History

While the base woman emoji has existed since early Unicode iterations, this specific combination was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of a major initiative to improve gender and skin tone representation for professions. It utilizes the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to link the woman character with a profession-specific medical icon.

Details

Glyph

👩🏽‍⚕

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FD U+200D U+2695

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fd_200d_2695:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍⚕

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.

Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.

MIT License Fluent Emoji Repository