The Woman in Tuxedo: Medium Skin Tone emoji (🤵🏽♀️) shows a woman wearing a formal black tuxedo with a bow tie, rendered with a medium skin tone. It stands for weddings, black-tie events, formal celebrations, and polished, confident style, and it lets women who identify with this look see themselves reflected in emoji.
What Does the Woman in Tuxedo: Medium Skin Tone Emoji Mean?
This emoji means a woman dressed in a tuxedo, usually at a wedding, formal ceremony, or other dressy occasion.
The base character comes from the Person in Tuxedo emoji, which Unicode added years before the gendered versions existed. This version combines that person with the female sign, so it reads clearly as a woman wearing classic menswear-inspired formalwear. The medium skin tone modifier adds personal representation.
Because the tuxedo is such a strong cultural symbol of ceremony, the emoji carries meanings beyond clothing:
- Formality: black tie, gala, awards night, or any event with a dress code.
- Weddings: a bride in a suit, a groomswoman, an officiant, or a guest.
- Style and confidence: sharp tailoring worn with pride.
It is a friendly, celebratory emoji. It does not carry hidden slang, sarcasm, or negative undertones.
What Are the Technical Details of This Emoji?
This emoji is a sequence of five codepoints: U+1F935 (person in tuxedo), U+1F3FD (medium skin tone modifier), U+200D (zero width joiner), U+2640 (female sign), and U+FE0F (variation selector-16).
It belongs to the People & Body category and was introduced in Unicode 13.0 and Emoji 13.0. Its shortcode is :woman_in_tuxedo_medium_skin_tone:. The Unicode name is WOMAN IN TUXEDO: MEDIUM SKIN TONE, and Apple uses the same name.
Why Is It Made of Several Parts?
Emoji like this one are built from sequences rather than a single character. The zero width joiner tells your device to combine the tuxedo person and the female sign into one image. If a device does not recognize the sequence, it may show separate symbols, such as a person in tuxedo followed by a female sign, instead of one combined woman in a tuxedo.
Does It Support Further Skin Tone Changes?
No. This particular emoji is already a specific skin tone variant, so it does not offer additional skin tone options. If you want a different tone, you need to choose the matching variant from the emoji keyboard, or use the default version, Woman in Tuxedo, which appears in a neutral color on most platforms.
How Do You Use the Woman in Tuxedo Emoji?
Use it whenever you want to signal formal dress, a wedding role, or a dressed-up celebration, especially when you want the person pictured to be a woman with a medium skin tone.
Here are a few realistic examples:
- Rehearsal dinner tonight, and yes, I am wearing the tux 🤵🏽♀️
- Best woman duties accepted. Speech is written, suit is pressed 🤵🏽♀️✨
- Black tie gala on Saturday, finally an excuse to dress like this 🤵🏽♀️
Can It Represent a Bride?
Yes. Many brides choose suits or tuxedos, and this emoji fits that choice better than the traditional bride emoji, which shows a veil and dress. It also works for brides marrying women, where both partners might want formal wear that is not a gown.
Can It Represent a Professional Look?
It can, but with limits. The tuxedo points to evening formalwear rather than everyday office clothing, so it suits event announcements, awards, and ceremonial roles better than routine work updates.
What Does 🤵🏽♀️ Mean in Texting and on Social Media?
In texting and social posts, it usually means "I am dressed up" or "this event is fancy," often with a proud or playful tone.
On Instagram and similar platforms, people attach it to outfit photos, wedding party pictures, prom posts, and graduation or awards content. It works well as a caption accent because it shows the occasion without needing a long explanation.
In group chats, it can also be a lighthearted way to announce that you are about to get ready for something. A message like Getting ready now 🤵🏽♀️ sets the mood immediately.
Some people use it as an identity marker in bios or profiles, especially those who love suits, masculine-of-center fashion, or tailored looks. That use is personal, and the emoji does not imply anything specific about someone beyond their style unless they say so themselves.
How Does the Woman in Tuxedo Emoji Look on Different Platforms?
Each platform draws the tuxedo, hair, and face in its own style, but they all keep the core look: a person in a black jacket, white shirt, and bow tie with a medium skin tone.
Support depends on software version, because this emoji arrived with Emoji 13.0. According to the supported platform data for this emoji:
- Apple: iOS 14.2 and later, macOS 11.0 and later.
- Google: Android 11.0 and later.
- Microsoft: Windows 10 May 2021 update and later.
- Samsung: One UI 3.1 and later.
- WhatsApp: version 2.21 and later.
- Twitter: Twemoji 13.0 and later.
If you or your recipient use an older operating system, the emoji may appear as a person in a tuxedo next to a female sign, or as a blank box. Updating your device usually fixes the issue.
Which Emojis Pair Well With 🤵🏽♀️?
The best pairings add context to the occasion, such as celebration, romance, or style.
- 🤵🏽♀️💍: a wedding or engagement announcement.
- 🤵🏽♀️🥂: a toast, reception, or gala.
- 🤵🏽♀️✨: a glamorous, sparkling look.
- 🤵🏽♀️🖤: classic black-tie elegance.
For a more playful reaction, add 👀 Eyes to say "look at this outfit," or add 👍 Thumbs Up when you approve of someone else's formal look.
You can also explore related people emojis by visiting the People & Body category, where you will find many role, gesture, and skin tone variants.
How Is It Different From Similar Emojis?
The closest relative is the default Woman in Tuxedo emoji, which has no skin tone and appears in a generic yellow or neutral shade. This medium skin tone version is identical in meaning but personalizes the image.
Compared with the Bride with Veil emoji, the tuxedo version signals suit-style formalwear rather than a gown and veil. Compared with Man in Tuxedo, the difference is the gender presentation, not the formality.
It is also different from reaction emojis such as Woman Shrugging or Woman Facepalming. Those show an attitude or reaction, while the tuxedo emoji shows an outfit or event.
When Should You Avoid the Woman in Tuxedo Emoji?
Avoid it when the context is casual, serious, or unrelated to formal dress, because the emoji signals elegance and celebration.
- Sensitive news: it can feel out of place in messages about loss, conflict, or crisis, unless you are discussing a funeral dress code.
- Routine work updates: a tuxedo can seem excessive for ordinary project messages.
- Assuming identity: avoid using the emoji to describe someone's gender or skin tone unless they have shared it.
In formal writing, such as legal documents or official correspondence, skip emoji altogether. In invitations or event pages, however, it can be a charming visual cue for dress code.
How Do You Copy and Paste the Woman in Tuxedo: Medium Skin Tone Emoji?
You can copy this emoji with one click right on this page, then paste it into any app that supports emoji.
Click the copy button near the emoji at the top of the page, and it will be saved to your clipboard. Then paste it into a text message, social media caption, email, document, or chat. On most devices, paste by long-pressing the text field and choosing Paste, or by pressing Ctrl+V on Windows or Command+V on Mac.
If you would rather write a message and have it converted into emoji, try the Emoji Translator. To browse what people are using right now, check the trending emojis page.
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