💃 Woman Dancing

Emoji Meaning

A person dancing, most commonly displayed as woman with one arm raised wearing a red dress, while dancing the salsa or flamenco. Often used to represent a sense of fun or as a positive affirmation, e.g. "great! 💃"

This emoji did not originally specify a gender, but was canonically deemed a woman when the 🕺 Man Dancing emoji was approved. Google previously displayed this emoji as a man, then a gender-neutral blob character (in keeping with guidelines at the time).

Microsoft previously displayed this emoji as stick figure, and Samsung has displayed this over various releases as a white boy, black boy, and white girl.

Woman Dancing was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Dancer” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

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