Woman getting massage: light skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with a light skin tone relaxing with her eyes closed as hands massage her temples. The emoji depicts a professional spa or salon treatment designed to relieve stress.
Usage Context
Used to describe a day of self-care, a visit to a massage therapist, or a reaction to a high-stress situation like a headache. People often pair it with 💆 to show a general need for relaxation or to jokingly signal they are 'checked out' for the day.
History
Massage-related characters were brought into the Unicode standard to represent common personal services found in Japanese urban culture. The gendered variants and skin tone modifiers were added in later updates to provide more inclusive representation of diverse spa experiences.
Details
Glyph
💆🏻♀
Unicode
U+1F486 U+1F3FB U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f486_1f3fb_200d_2640:
HTML Entity
����‍♀
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-activity
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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