White hair

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Shortcode
:white_hair:
Unicode
U+1F9B3
HTML
🦳
CSS
\1F9B3
JavaScript
"\u{1F9B3}"
URL
%F0%9F%A6%B3

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What ๐Ÿฆณ means

A hair component for white or gray hair. Joined to a person emoji, it makes forms like ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿฆณ and ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿฆณ.

The combined forms often stand for grandparents, older people, or someone who has embraced going gray. People also use them jokingly when stress "gives them gray hair".

Alone, it shows only a white hair shape with no face under it.

Facts

White hair ๐Ÿฆณ 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 :white_hair:. People also look for it with words like โ€œgrayโ€, โ€œhairโ€, โ€œoldโ€, or โ€œwhiteโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)
  2. 20182 new emoji built from it (Emoji 11.0)๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿฆณ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿฆณ
  3. 2019New emoji built from it (Emoji 12.1)๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿฆณ

Design history

Google (Noto)

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

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. white 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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