Person: curly hair: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A gender-neutral representation of an adult with voluminous, tightly coiled curly hair and a medium-toned complexion. The design focuses on celebrating hair texture and skin diversity within digital communication.

Usage Context

This emoji is frequently used to identify oneself, describe a friend, or discuss hair care routines and styling. It is often combined with other identity modifiers or grouped with related hair-type emojis like 🧑🏼‍🦰 or 🧑🏾‍🦲 to create a more inclusive representation of diverse groups of people.

History

As Unicode expanded to better represent human diversity, the Emoji 12.0 update in 2019 introduced specific hair styles to go along with existing skin tone modifiers. This was a response to long-standing user requests for more granular ways to express physical appearance beyond basic facial expressions.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏽‍🦱

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FD U+200D U+1F9B1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fd_200d_1f9b1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB1;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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