The female counterpart to the bearded-man emoji, representing women with facial hair — a deliberately inclusive choice by Unicode to normalize hirsutism (e.g. PCOS) rather than treat beards as exclusively male. It's used both literally and as a supportive symbol in body-positivity posts. Trivia: it was introduced alongside the man version in Unicode 13.0 (2020), one of the few emoji pairs designed explicitly around a medical/social awareness angle.
Keywords: beard, bearded, whiskers, woman