Meaning
The women's room symbol mirrors its male counterpart but features a stylized silhouette of a woman—typically shown with a triangular or A-line dress shape, and sometimes with an indication of longer hair. Like the men's room sign, it uses a white figure on a blue or standard background with bold, clear lines for maximum visibility.
This emoji serves primarily practical functions in real-world contexts: marking restroom locations, giving directions, and identifying gender-specific facilities in public spaces. In messaging, it's used alongside the men's room emoji when discussing bathroom availability, in jokes about waiting times, or when describing facility layouts for accessibility or planning purposes.
The figure's dress silhouette became the universal visual shorthand for women's facilities decades ago, and this emoji carries that same recognizable design language. Just like its male counterpart, it's more commonly encountered on websites, venue maps, and practical guides than in casual social chatter.
Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 0.6 in 2010, this emoji represents standardized public signage that has remained consistent across global infrastructure for generations.
Common Uses
- • Marking women's restroom locations
- • Directing people to bathroom facilities
- • Joking about bathroom queue times
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
The triangular dress shape used on women's room signs became internationally standardized because it's instantly recognizable and works across all cultural fashion differences.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:womens: :womens: :womens: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 🚺 |
| HTML (hex) | 🚺 |
| CSS | \1F6BA |
| JavaScript | \uD83D\uDEBA |
| Python | \U0001F6BA |
| Java | \uD83D\uDEBA |
| Perl | \x{1F6BA} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F6BA} |
| Punycode | xn--2ray |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%9A%BA |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x9A 0xBA |
🚺️ in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | মহিলাদের কক্ষ |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 女厕 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 女廁 |
| Danish | dametoilet |
| Dutch | damestoilet |
| English | women’s room |
| English (UK) | women’s room |
| Estonian | naiste-WC |
| Finnish | naisten wc |
| French | symbole Toilettes femmes |
| German | Damen |
| Hindi | महिला कक्ष |
| Hungarian | női mosdó |
| Italian | simbolo del bagno delle donne |
| Japanese | 女子トイレ |
| Korean | 여자 화장실 |
| Lithuanian | moterų tualetas |
| Malay | tandas wanita |
| Norwegian | dametoalett |
| Polish | toaleta damska |
| Portuguese | banheiro feminino |
| Russian | женский туалет |
| Spanish | señal de aseo para mujeres |
| Spanish (Mexico) | señal del baño de las mujeres |
| Swedish | damtoalett |
| Thai | ห้องน้ำหญิง |
| Ukrainian | жіноча вбиральня |
| Vietnamese | nhà vệ sinh nữ |