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🙅‍♀️ Woman gesturing NO emoji

🙅‍♀️

Emoji #266

HTML

&#128581,8205,9792,65039;

Unicode

U+1F645 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F

What is 🙅‍♀️ called?

🙅‍♀️ is called the Woman gesturing NO emoji.

Often called the saying-no woman, no-gesture woman, or refusing woman. These are natural descriptions of the gesture, not separate Unicode characters.

What does 🙅‍♀️ mean?

🙅‍♀️ is officially named woman gesturing NO. It shows a woman crossing both raised arms into a large X and commonly communicates refusal, rejection, stopping, prohibition, or setting a clear boundary.

Use it for saying no, declining a request, marking something forbidden, stopping an action, or rejecting a proposal. This sequence explicitly selects a woman; use the neutral version when gender is irrelevant. Related choices include 🙅 Person gesturing no and 🙅‍♂️ Man gesturing no.

Other meanings

It can mean saying no, refusal, rejection, stop, not allowed, forbidden, decline, boundary, or disapproval.

Example Usage

She said no work calls during dinner 🙅‍♀️

The woman stopped the plan before it began 🙅‍♀️

More details

Officially named woman gesturing NO. Its fully qualified sequence is U+1F645 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F. It was introduced in Emoji 4.0. This ZWJ sequence combines the base gesture with the female sign and supports skin-tone modifiers.

Visual description

A female-presenting person is shown with both arms raised and crossed above or in front of the head to form an X.

The posture is the defining clue; hair, clothing, and facial details vary by platform.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.

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