Ballet Dancer Emoji

Ballet Dancer is a zero-width-joiner sequence combining several emoji introduced in Emoji 17.0. It belongs to the People & Body group, Person Activity subgroup.

Added in Emoji 17.0. Devices that have not updated yet will show a placeholder box instead.

Unicode data

Unicode name
ballet dancer
CLDR short name
ballet dancer
Korean name (CLDR)
발레 무용수
Code points
U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1FA70
Group
People & Body
Subgroup
Person Activity
Added to Unicode
12.0
Added to Emoji
17.0
Sequence
Multi code point
Skin tones
Yes (5)

Data generated from Unicode 17.0.0 and CLDR 48.2.0. Last reviewed 2026-07-31.See data sources.

Search keywords

Official CLDR keywords for this emoji β€” these are what search matches against.

Skin tone variants

Each variant is this emoji followed by a skin tone modifier character.

Developer formats

Every format is derived from the full code point sequence, not just the first character.

Emoji character
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Unicode code points Β· Sequence of multiple code points
U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1FA70
JavaScript escape
\u{1f9d1}\u{200d}\u{1fa70}
CSS escape Β· For content: "…"
\1F9D1\200D\1FA70
HTML hexadecimal entity
🧑‍🩰
HTML decimal entity
🧑‍🩰
JSON escaped string
"\uD83E\uDDD1\u200D\uD83E\uDE70"
Python Unicode escape
\U0001F9D1\u200D\U0001FA70
Java Unicode escape Β· UTF-16 surrogate pairs
\uD83E\uDDD1\u200D\uD83E\uDE70
URL encoded value
%F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A9%B0
UTF-8 bytes
F0 9F A7 91 E2 80 8D F0 9F A9 B0

Accessibility

Screen readers announce this emoji using its CLDR name, β€œballet dancer”. When the emoji carries meaning rather than decoration, keep nearby text that says the same thing, and avoid repeating it several times in a row β€” each repetition is read out in full.

Check a sentence for accessibility problems.

Related emojis

Chosen by shared CLDR keywords, subgroup and group β€” not by usage statistics, which we do not collect.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Unicode code point for Ballet Dancer?

Ballet Dancer is a sequence of 3 code points: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1FA70.

Does Ballet Dancer support skin tones?

Yes. Unicode defines 5 skin tone variants for it, listed on this page. Each one is the base emoji followed by a modifier character.

Why does Ballet Dancer sometimes appear as separate emoji?

It is joined with zero-width joiners. When a device has no single glyph for the combination, it falls back to drawing each part side by side. Both results are correct behaviour.

How do I use Ballet Dancer in HTML or code?

Paste the character directly into UTF-8 source, or use an escape: 🧑‍🩰 in HTML, \u{1f9d1}\u{200d}\u{1fa70} in JavaScript.

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