Meet the old woman: dark skin tone (👵🏿) — the internet’s shorthand for Nana energy, elder wisdom, and lovingly dramatic “back in my day” speeches. People drop it to rep their grandma or a respected elder, or to self-roast when you’re creaking after two squats, asleep by 9, or asking which HDMI input the TV needs. It swings sweet (birthday love, Sunday check-ins), sassy (gentle group-chat scolding), and ironic (you’re 24 but your knees are 80). The dark skin tone modifier highlights Black and Afro-descendant representation, often paired with hearts, soup, or tea for wholesome, cozy vibes. You’ll see it in memes about generational advice and, occasionally, in “coastal grandma” jokes—though here the mood is classic matriarch over beach-house chic.
On Apple/iOS, she’s a front-facing bust with deep-brown skin, silver-gray hair in a neat bun, and a small, kind, closed-mouth smile. She wears a lilac-to-purple top with soft gradients and clean vector lines—no glasses, no extras—just that instantly recognizable face that whispers, “call your grandma.” The look is polite, composed, and gently nostalgic, perfect for captions about family recipes, sage advice, or respectful “ma’am” moments. In comment sections, it also signals OG status, playful parent energy, and the timeless grandma starter pack: extra blankets, weather alerts, and unsolicited snacks.
The Older Woman emoji combined with the Black flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the black skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3579 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | Black Older Woman |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👵🏿 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👵🏿 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👵 🏿 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👵 🏿 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f475, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F475, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128117, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB5, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 B5, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 265, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC75, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc75, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56437, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F475 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F475, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128117, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F475\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\xb5\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC75\uD83C\uDFFF" |
