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Curly hair

Curly hair Emoji

Objects

A close-up view of a head covered in tight, dark, spiral curls. The icon features a rounded shape that emphasizes the volume and texture characteristic of natural curly or coily hair types.

Usage Context

Widely used to describe someone’s hairstyle, identify as a curly-haired person, or discuss hair care routines. It is frequently sent alongside other self-expression emojis like 🧑 or 💁 to help clarify physical traits during digital conversations.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of the Emoji 11.0 update, this character was introduced to increase the variety of human-focused icons, allowing users to better represent diverse hair textures that were previously missing from the standard keyboard layout.

Details

Glyph
🦱
Unicode
U+1F9B1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9b1:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Objects
Subcategory hair-style
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1
Tags
afrocurlyhairringletsobjectsstylenatural hairtexturecoilshairstyleperson

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

Apache 2.0SIL OFL 1.1Noto Repository

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