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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 Microsoft
Category Objects
Subcategory hair-style
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License MIT
Tags
afrocurlyhairringletsobjectsstylenatural hairtexturecoilshairstyleperson

Microsoft Fluent License

Emoji graphics by Microsoft. © Microsoft Corporation. Licensed under MIT. Excludes assets such as Clippy, flags, and trademarks.

Microsoft Fluent Emoji assets are licensed under the MIT License. Certain assets—such as Clippy, country flags, and Microsoft product/brand trademarks—are excluded from this license and may not be used without separate permission.

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