Woman bouncing ball: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with a medium-light skin tone captured mid-motion while dribbling a basketball. The design emphasizes movement, showing the figure crouched low with one hand guiding the ball toward the ground.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to talk about sports, fitness, or general enthusiasm for basketball. It works well when cheering on a favorite team, discussing a local game, or sharing workout progress. Users often pair it with 🏀 for context or 🏆 when discussing tournament wins.

History

The base version of this character arrived in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. However, the ability to modify skin tones and gender was added later in 2016 as part of the Emoji 4.0 update, which aimed to increase representation and allow users to better customize avatars to match their personal identity.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏼‍♀

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FC U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3fc_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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

Twemoji graphics are licensed under CC-BY 4.0. You must provide appropriate credit when redistributing or modifying these assets.

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