Man: curly hair Emoji

People

A portrait of an adult man with a distinct mop of curly, dark brown hair. The design focuses on hair texture as a primary identifier for the character.

Usage Context

Used to represent specific male individuals with curly hair, whether for physical description or personal identity. It serves as a gendered alternative to the general person: curly hair emoji and is frequently used alongside other hairstyle variants like man: blonde hair or man: bald to customize avatars in messaging threads.

History

This emoji was introduced as part of Emoji 11.0 in 2018. It was developed to address a long-standing request for greater character diversity, moving beyond generic hair types to provide more granular options for digital representation and self-expression.

Details

Glyph

👨‍🦱

Unicode

U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9B1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f468_200d_1f9b1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC68;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB1;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

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.

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