Woman bouncing ball: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned woman mid-motion, bouncing a basketball. The design captures a player with one leg lifted, frozen in the moment of dribbling or preparing to take a shot.

Usage Context

Used to discuss sports, exercise, or team competitions. It is frequently employed to show support for professional basketball teams or to signal that the sender is currently headed to the court. It works well alongside related sports icons like 🏀 or 🏆.

History

The base character was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010 as a gender-neutral figure. The specific female version and skin tone modifiers were added in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of a major initiative to improve representation and diversity in digital communication.

Details

Glyph

⛹🏿‍♀

Unicode

U+26F9 U+1F3FF U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u26f9_1f3ff_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

⛹&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;‍♀

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-sport

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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