Woman pilot Emoji

People

A portrait of a woman wearing a professional flight captain's hat, typically featuring a gold badge or brim detail. It represents a female aviator or a person working in the aviation industry.

Usage Context

Used to discuss air travel, careers in aviation, or to celebrate women in STEM and technical fields. It is frequently sent when someone is heading to the airport or beginning a flight, often paired with the ✈️ airplane emoji or the 🌍 globe.

History

The woman pilot was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of a major initiative to introduce diverse professional roles for women. This update addressed long-standing gender bias in emoji sets, ensuring that roles like pilots and scientists could be represented by female characters rather than just the default male-coded options.

Details

Glyph

👩‍✈

Unicode

U+1F469 U+200D U+2708

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f469_200d_2708:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC69;‍✈

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-role

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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