Man: curly hair: dark skin tone Emoji
People
A dark-skinned man with distinct, tightly coiled curly hair. The emoji displays the person from the chest up, clearly highlighting the hair texture as a defining physical trait.
Usage Context
Used to describe a specific person, identify a friend, or discuss hair types. It is frequently sent in place of photos when someone wants to mention a man with curly hair in a group chat or conversation. It is often used alongside related person emojis like 👨🏽🦱 or 👩🏿🦱 to represent diverse hair textures and appearances.
History
This emoji was made possible by the introduction of ZWJ (Zero Width Joiner) sequences in Unicode 8.0 in 2015. This technology allowed developers to combine base characters—in this case, a man and curly hair—with specific skin tone modifiers to create a more inclusive range of human representations that weren't possible in the early days of basic character sets.
Details
Glyph
👨🏿🦱
Unicode
U+1F468 U+1F3FF U+200D U+1F9B1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f468_1f3ff_200d_1f9b1:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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