Barber pole
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- Shortcode
:barber:- Shortcode
:barber_pole:- Unicode
U+1F488- HTML
💈- CSS
\1F488- JavaScript
"\u{1F488}"- URL
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What ๐ means
The striped red and white pole, sometimes with blue, that hangs outside a barbershop. It means a haircut, a fresh fade or a trip to the barber.
Sent to say 'getting a cut', to book an appointment or to show off a new look, often with โ๏ธ or ๐โโ๏ธ. Barbers use it in their profiles and posts to mark their trade.
The stripes come from the old trade of barber-surgeons, who also did bloodletting.
Facts
Barber pole ๐ is an emoji in the travel and places category, under place other. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :barber: or :barber_pole:. People also look for it with words like โbarberโ, โcutโ, โfreshโ, or โhaircutโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2021
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.