Person: curly hair

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Shortcode: :person_curly_hair:
Unicode: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B1
HTML: 🧑‍🦱
CSS: \1F9D1\200D\1F9B1
JavaScript: "\u{1F9D1}\u{200D}\u{1F9B1}"
URL: %F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A6%B1

What 🧑‍🦱 means

An adult with curly hair, gender not specified. 🧑‍🦱 represents anyone with curls, waves or coils.

Choose it as a gender-neutral self-image or to mention a curly-haired friend. It fits curl care tips, humidity complaints, salon visits and natural hair posts, where it sets the scene faster than words.

Facts

Person: curly hair 🧑‍🦱 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. It is a sequence that joins 🧑 person and 🦱 curly hair. Devices that do not know the sequence show those emoji side by side. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :person_curly_hair:. People also look for it with words like “adult”, “curly hair”, or “person”.

Made of

🧑+🦱=🧑‍🦱

Timeline

2019Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 12.1)
2019Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 12.1)

Design history

Google (Noto)

2020

Twemoji (X, Discord)

2020

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

people & body · Emoji 12.1