Woman pilot: light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman wearing a dark aviator hat and uniform, depicted with a light skin tone. The design captures the classic appearance of a commercial airline captain, complete with the iconic flight cap.

Usage Context

Used to discuss air travel, careers in aviation, or to represent a person flying a plane. It is frequently sent when a friend is heading to the airport or starting a vacation. It can be paired with ✈️ for travel updates or 👩‍🚀 when discussing different types of professional flight roles.

History

The base woman pilot emoji arrived in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of a push to increase gender and professional diversity across the emoji keyboard. The modifier for skin tone was added shortly after as part of the system that allows users to select specific skin tones for human-based characters.

Details

Glyph

👩🏻‍✈

Unicode

U+1F469 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2708

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_1f3fb_200d_2708:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍✈

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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