Man: curly hair: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A portrait of an adult man with medium-toned skin and a full head of short, textured curly hair. The design captures the specific hair texture and skin pigmentation using standard human-representation formatting.
Usage Context
This emoji is used to identify a specific demographic or to describe someone with curly hair. It is frequently employed in casual conversation to talk about friends, family, or celebrities who share these features. It serves as a more specific alternative to the generic 👨 man emoji, allowing users to better represent physical traits in digital communication.
History
The ability to customize skin tones for human emojis arrived in Unicode 8.0 in 2015, following a massive public push for more inclusive digital representation. The specific curly hair variant was added later in Unicode 11.0 in 2018 to address the lack of hair texture diversity within the standard emoji set.
Details
Glyph
👨🏽🦱
Unicode
U+1F468 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F9B1
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f468_1f3fd_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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