Woman: white hair

A woman with white or gray hair. 👩‍🦳 stands for an older woman or someone who embraces her gray.

People use it for moms and grandmothers, silver hair styles, and women who stop dyeing their hair. It reads as mature without the frailty of 👵.

Facts

Woman: white hair 👩‍🦳 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 🦳 white hair. 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 :white_haired_woman: or :woman_white_hair:. People also look for it with words like “adult”, “lady”, “white hair”, 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