Woman: curly hair

A woman with curly hair. 👩‍🦱 stands for women with curls, waves or coils.

Common in posts about natural hair, curl routines and wash days. Women with curly hair use it as a self-portrait that looks more like them than 👩.

Facts

Woman: curly hair 👩‍🦱 is an emoji in the people and body category, under person. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. It is a sequence that joins 👩 woman 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 :curly_haired_woman: or :woman_curly_hair:. People also look for it with words like “adult”, “curly hair”, “lady”, or “woman”.

Made of

👩+🦱=👩‍🦱

Timeline

1. 2018Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 11.0)
2. 2018Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 11.0)

Design history

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

people & body · Emoji 11.0