Person with veil Emoji

People

A person wearing a traditional white bridal veil, usually draped over their head. The design features a neutral or smiling expression, highlighting the head and shoulders of someone prepared for a wedding ceremony.

Usage Context

Widely used to discuss weddings, engagements, or bridal showers. It frequently appears alongside emojis like 💍 to announce a marriage or 💒 to denote a wedding venue. Users often pull this into messages to signal that someone is getting married or to celebrate the excitement of a partner's big day.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial push to include more human-centric symbols for mobile messaging. While it originated as a specific representation of a bride, later updates have allowed for gender-neutral variations to better reflect diverse global marriage customs.

Details

Glyph

👰

Unicode

U+1F470

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f470:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC70;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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