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 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

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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