Waitress Emoji

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-12 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). No emoji name, no CLDR search word and no Unicode character name holds waitress or waiter; server, tip, gratuity, menu and apron lead to no emoji. Woman tipping hand is U+1F481 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F (Person tipping hand, a zero width joiner, the female sign), Emoji 4.0, with five skin tones; it is in the Emoji 4.0 sequence file (https://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/4.0/emoji-zwj-sequences.txt). That U+1F481 is named INFORMATION DESK PERSON is from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and that it dates from Unicode 6.0 is from DerivedAge.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/DerivedAge.txt). The Unicode names list (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt) puts that character under the heading Role symbols with the note often used to indicate sassy or carefree, and glosses Cooking as frying pan, cooking utensil, Fork and knife as restaurant, meal, Fork and knife with plate as dining, Bellhop bell as reception, services and SQUARED KATAKANA SA as service sign. CLDR files tipping and sassy under the three tipping-hand emoji alone, cook under the three cooks alone, tray under Inbox tray and Outbox tray alone, serve under Soft ice cream alone, pour under Pouring liquid alone, service under Service dog and the Japanese service charge button alone, and restaurant under fourteen emoji: the twelve in the group here and two drinks with alcohol, which are left out. That the woman’s hand is drawn up by her shoulder, the way a tray of drinks is carried, is as Emojipedia describes it (https://emojipedia.org/woman-tipping-hand), restated. From Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0): waitress (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waitress) for the definition; waiter (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/waiter) for the year 1834 and the obsolete sense of a tray; and for the restaurant words server (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/server); carhop (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carhop); front of house (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/front_of_house); back of house (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/back_of_house); in the weeds (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/in_the_weeds); blue-plate special (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/blue-plate_special); doggy bag (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/doggy_bag); dumbwaiter (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dumbwaiter); on the house (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/on_the_house). Wikipedia’s List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons, CC BY-SA 4.0) holds no waiter and no waitress; the cup of tea face is on it. Unihan 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip) defines 旦 as dawn; morning; day: in the typed face it only stands in for a cup. The lines and the combo names are this site’s own. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the typed lines, the drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Definitions marked By Wikipedia or By Wiktionary are quoted or closely restated from those projects under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). All are credited in the source line.