Woman playing water polo: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with medium-dark skin depicted in the middle of a swimming stroke, holding a yellow water polo ball above the water. She is wearing a swim cap and appears ready to pass or shoot.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to choice for discussing water sports, swimming competitions, or team aquatic games. It is frequently used by athletes to share training updates or to show support for the national team during the Olympics, often alongside related sports icons like 🏊 or 🤽.

History

Water polo was one of the first team sports added to the modern Olympic program in 1900. This specific emoji variant was introduced as part of the Emoji 4.0 update in 2016, which implemented the ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequence to allow users to combine gender and skin tone modifiers with the base water polo emoji for better representation.

Details

Glyph

🤽🏾‍♀

Unicode

U+1F93D U+1F3FE U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93d_1f3fe_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3D;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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