Woman cartwheeling: light skin tone Emoji

People

A woman with light skin performing a cartwheel with her arms and legs extended in a mid-air rotation. The figure is captured in motion, showing the physical agility required for this gymnastics maneuver.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to express joy, high energy, or a feeling of being 'flipped' over something exciting. It is often sent when someone is feeling particularly playful or wants to emphasize a carefree mood, serving as an active alternative to more static faces like 🤸 or 🤸‍♂️.

History

The base cartwheeling emoji was introduced in Unicode 9.0 in 2016 as part of a push to broaden the range of athletic activities represented in digital communication. The light skin tone modifier was added shortly thereafter, following the implementation of the Fitzpatrick scale to allow for more diverse human representation across mobile messaging platforms.

Details

Glyph

🤸🏻‍♀

Unicode

U+1F938 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f938_1f3fb_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD38;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;‍♀

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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