Meaning
This emoji shows a woman with a completely bald head, depicted with a smooth, round appearance and a serene or neutral expression. The design treats baldness as simply another natural human appearance without stigma or pity. The figure is rendered with warm skin tones and a calm, confident demeanor.
People use this emoji to represent women who are bald by choice, due to medical reasons like chemotherapy, or for cultural or religious practices. It's appeared in conversations about cancer survival, hair loss, religious traditions, or just personal aesthetic choices. The emoji normalizes baldness as a valid and visible human characteristic, which is especially meaningful for those navigating hair loss during health challenges.
Introduced in Unicode Emoji 11 (2018), this was a significant addition for representation. Before this, there was no dedicated emoji for a bald woman, meaning people had to resort to workarounds. The inclusion sends a message that all appearances matter and deserve recognition in our digital vocabulary.
Common Uses
- • Representing someone who is bald
- • Showing solidarity during hair loss or illness
- • Celebrating personal or cultural choices
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
This emoji became an important symbol for cancer patients and survivors, who could finally use a direct visual representation in their social media posts and messages.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:bald_woman: :bald_woman: :bald_woman: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 👩‍🦲 |
| HTML (hex) | 👩‍🦲 |
| CSS | \1F469\200D\1F9B2 |
| JavaScript | \uD83D\uDC69\u200D\uD83E\uDDB2 |
| Python | \U0001F469\U0000200D\U0001F9B2 |
| Java | \uD83D\uDC69\u200D\uD83E\uDDB2 |
| Perl | \x{1F469}\x{200D}\x{1F9B2} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F469}\x{200D}\x{1F9B2} |
| Punycode | xn--2quh-6bx-2rw2 |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%91%A9%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A6%B2 |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xA9 0xE2 0x80 0x8D 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xB2 |
👩🦲 in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | মহিলা: নেড়া |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 女人: 秃顶 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 女人：禿頭 |
| Danish | kvinde: skaldet |
| Dutch | vrouw: kaal |
| English | woman: bald |
| English (UK) | woman: bald |
| Estonian | naine: kiilaspea |
| Finnish | nainen: kalju |
| French | femme : chauve |
| German | Frau: Glatze |
| Hindi | महिला: गंजा |
| Hungarian | nő: kopasz |
| Italian | donna: calvo |
| Japanese | 女性: はげ頭 |
| Korean | 여자: 대머리 |
| Lithuanian | moteris: plikas |
| Malay | perempuan: botak |
| Norwegian | kvinne: skallet |
| Polish | kobieta: łysy |
| Portuguese | mulher: careca |
| Russian | женщина: без волос |
| Spanish | mujer: sin pelo |
| Spanish (Mexico) | mujer: sin pelo |
| Swedish | kvinna: skallig |
| Thai | ผู้หญิง: หัวล้าน |
| Ukrainian | жінка: лисина |
| Vietnamese | phụ nữ: hói |