Woman with headscarf: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman wearing a head covering, depicted with a medium-light skin tone. The headscarf is wrapped securely around her hair, neck, and shoulders, styled in a way commonly associated with a hijab.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to represent Muslim women or people who wear head coverings for religious, cultural, or fashion-related reasons. It is frequently paired with other diverse emojis like 👩🏾 or 🧕🏽 to highlight inclusive representation in digital messaging.

History

Proposed by teenager Rayouf Alhumedhi in 2016 to bridge a gap in emoji representation, this character was officially added to Unicode 10.0 in 2017. Its inclusion was a major step in diversifying the emoji keyboard to better reflect the global population.

Details

Glyph

🧕🏼

Unicode

U+1F9D5 U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d5_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD5;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category People

Subcategory person-role

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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