Person: curly hair Emoji

People

A gender-neutral figure characterized by a dense, voluminous mop of curly hair. The design focuses on the texture of the hair to distinguish it from the standard 🧑 emoji.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to describe someone with wavy or coily hair types without specifying their gender. It is a staple in online profiles, chat threads, and casual conversations about hair care, salon visits, or simply identifying people in group photos.

History

Added in 2018 as part of Unicode 11.0, this emoji was released alongside a collection of other hairstyle-specific variants like 🧑‍🦰 and 🧑‍🦳. These were developed to move away from rigid gender archetypes, allowing users more flexibility to represent the diverse hair textures found in the real world.

Details

Glyph

🧑‍🦱

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_200d_1f9b1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;‍&#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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository