Curly hair

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Shortcode
:curly_hair:
Unicode
U+1F9B1
HTML
🦱
CSS
\1F9B1
JavaScript
"\u{1F9B1}"
URL
%F0%9F%A6%B1

afrocurlyhairringlets

What ๐Ÿฆฑ means

A hair component for curly hair. When joined to a person emoji, it creates curly-haired versions like ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿฆฑ and ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿฆฑ.

People with curls, coils or afros use the combined forms to show their natural hair. It turns up in hair care chats, salon posts and natural hair communities.

By itself it appears as a dark curly hair shape without a face.

Facts

Curly hair ๐Ÿฆฑ is an emoji in the components category, under hair style. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. 3 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :curly_hair:. People also look for it with words like โ€œafroโ€, โ€œcurlyโ€, โ€œhairโ€, or โ€œringletsโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)
  2. 20182 new emoji built from it (Emoji 11.0)๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿฆฑ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿฆฑ
  3. 2019New emoji built from it (Emoji 12.1)๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿฆฑ

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. curly hair, Google (Noto) design from 20182018

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. curly hair, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20192019

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

components ยท Emoji 11.0

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