Woman wearing turban: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A digital icon showing a woman wearing a traditional wrapped turban, rendered with a medium-light skin tone. The design captures the specific style of headwear worn in various cultures throughout South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to represent someone wearing a turban, often to highlight cultural identity or personal style. It functions as a gendered counterpart to the 👳 person wearing turban emoji and is frequently used alongside other diverse representations like 👳🏾‍♂️ to showcase inclusive family or community groups.

History

The woman wearing turban was added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 4.0. Its introduction was a direct response to user demand for better gender representation across all occupations and cultural attire categories, building on the framework established by earlier, more generic face emojis.

Details

Glyph
👳🏼‍♀
Unicode
U+1F473 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f473_1f3fc_200d_2640:
HTML Entity
����‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft
Category People
Subcategory person-role
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Tags
womanturbanheadwearculturemedium-light skin tonefemalepersondiversityidentityrole

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