Woman playing handball emoji 🤾♀️
Emoji 4.0 (2016) · U+1F93E U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🤾♀️ means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🤾♀️ are athletics, ball, catch, chuck, handball, hurl, lob, pitch, playing, sport. They show what people use it for.
Search for athletics or ball on your emoji keyboard and 🤾♀️ is among the results.
You will find 🤾♀️ among the people playing sports (43 emoji), part of people & body with 390 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🤹 🤹♂️ 🤹♀️ 🤺.
Besides the default yellow, 🤾♀️ has 5 skin tones, from 🤾🏻♀️ light to 🤾🏿♀️ dark. Each one is a separate emoji you can copy above.
Will 🤾♀️ show on my friend's phone?
🤾♀️ has been around since Emoji 4.0 (2016), so it is safe to send to anyone.
What 🤾♀️ is made of
Technically 🤾♀️ is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🤾 person playing handball + ♀️ female sign. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🤾♀️
Search for woman playing handball in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🤾♀️.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type woman playing handball.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type woman playing handball in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type woman playing handball.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🤾♀️ is 4 code points (U+1F93E U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F), 13 bytes in UTF-8 and 5 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F93E U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤾‍♀️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤾‍♀️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F93E \200D \2640 \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F93E}\u200D\u2640\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%BE%E2%80%8D%E2%99%80%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 BE E2 80 8D E2 99 80 EF B8 8F |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🤾♀️ in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | woman playing handball |
| Português | jogadora de handebol |
| Español | mujer jugando al balonmano |
| Italiano | pallamanista donna |
| Français | handballeuse |
| Deutsch | Handballspielerin |
| Türkçe | hentbol oynayan kadın |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wanita bermain bola tangan |
| Polski | kobieta grająca w piłkę ręczną |
| Русский | гандболистка |
| 日本語 | ハンドボールをする女 |
| 한국어 | 핸드볼하는 여자 |
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What does the woman playing handball emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤾♀️ "woman playing handball" and links it with athletics, ball, catch, chuck. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people playing sports subgroup of people & body.
When was the woman playing handball emoji added?
In Emoji 4.0, released in 2016. Every current phone and computer has it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🤾♀️?
Yes. 🤾♀️ has these skin tones: 🤾🏻♀️ 🤾🏼♀️ 🤾🏽♀️ 🤾🏾♀️ 🤾🏿♀️. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.