U+1F9D5 Person with Headscarf

U+1F9D5 was added in Unicode version 10.0 in 2017. It belongs to the block U+1F900 to U+1F9FF Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs in the U+10000 to U+1FFFF Supplementary Multilingual Plane.

This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as woman's headscarf and hijab.

The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F9D5 prohibits a line break after it, if it’s followed by an emoji modifier.

The CLDR project calls this character “woman with headscarf” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: bandana, head, headscarf, hijab, kerchief, mantilla, tichel, woman.

This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: 🧕︎ The character can be changed in appearance, if it is followed by an emoji modifier. See the Emojipedia for more details on this character’s emoji properties.