Woman dancing

What 💃 means

A woman in a red dress mid-dance, one arm raised. It means celebration and letting loose: time to party, great news, or simply feeling good.

People send it for Friday nights, weddings, birthdays, and any win worth a happy dance. 💃🕺 together suggests a couple or a group on the dance floor, and a row of 💃💃💃 reads as pure excitement. In work chat it marks a shipped project or a long-awaited approval with a light touch.

Its look nods to flamenco and salsa, so it also shows up for Latin dance classes and nights out.

Facts

Woman dancing 💃 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person activity. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :dancer: or :woman_dancing:. People also look for it with words like “dance”, “dancer”, “dancing”, or “elegant”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
2. 2015Skin tones added (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

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

people & body · Unicode 6.0