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:ballet_dancer:U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1FA70🧑‍🩰\1F9D1\200D\1FA70"\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1FA70}"%F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A9%B0A dancer on tiptoe in ballet shoes, built from a person plus ๐ฉฐ. It stands for ballet itself: classes, recitals, performances, and the grace and discipline of the art form.
Dancers and their families use it for rehearsal updates, recital nights, and trips to see a show like a holiday Nutcracker. It also works as a playful way to describe moving gracefully, often with ๐ฉฐ and โจ.
Where ๐ and ๐บ read as party dancing, this one points to trained classical dance.
Ballet dancer ๐งโ๐ฉฐ is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 17.0, released in 2025. It is a sequence that joins ๐ง person and ๐ฉฐ ballet shoes. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :ballet_dancer:. People also look for it with words like โballetโ or โdancerโ.
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