Woman playing water polo: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A female athlete wearing a swimming cap and suit, captured mid-motion as she prepares to throw a water polo ball. The medium-light skin tone reflects the diverged representation standards established in modern emoji sets.

Usage Context

Used to denote team sports, swimming, or competitive aquatic activities. It is frequently sent by athletes, fans, or coaches discussing games, training sessions, or swimming pool outings. It pairs naturally with related sports icons like 🏊 or 🏐.

History

Water polo was introduced to the Olympic program in 1900, but it took until Unicode 9.0 in 2016 for this specific sport to get its own emoji. The gendered variants and skin tone modifiers were added shortly after to better reflect the diversity of international athletic competitions.

Details

Glyph

🤽🏼‍♀

Unicode

U+1F93D U+1F3FC U+200D U+2640

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f93d_1f3fc_200d_2640:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD3D;&#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

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