Woman playing handball: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with a medium-light skin tone captured mid-motion while playing handball. She is shown in an athletic posture, arm raised and ready to throw or lob a ball toward a goal.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to discuss team sports, physical exercise, or competitive matches. It is a go-to choice for fans of European sports leagues or for someone coordinating a pickup game with friends, often appearing alongside other activity icons like 🏀 or 🏐.

History

Handball has long been a staple of international athletics, particularly in the Olympic Games. The specific gendered and skin-toned variations were introduced in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 to provide more diverse representations of athletes within the global digital lexicon.

Details

Glyph

🤾🏼‍♀

Unicode

U+1F93E U+1F3FC U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93e_1f3fc_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3E;&#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

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