Woman: bald

A woman with no hair. 👩‍🦲 stands for bald or shaved-head women.

Women with alopecia, women going through chemo and women who shave their heads by choice use it to represent themselves. It also shows support in cancer awareness posts.

Facts

Woman: bald 👩‍🦲 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. It is a sequence that joins 👩 woman and 🦲 bald. 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 :bald_woman: or :woman_bald:. People also look for it with words like “adult”, “bald”, “lady”, or “woman”.

Made of

👩+🦲=👩‍🦲

Timeline

1. 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)
2. 2018Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 11.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Emoji 11.0