Person getting haircut: light skin tone Emoji

People

A person with light skin tone sitting in a chair while scissors snip away at their hair. The image depicts the standard professional setup of a hair salon, capturing the mid-cut action.

Usage Context

Used to signal a trip to the salon, a fresh new look, or the act of getting a trim. It is frequently sent to friends before an appointment or to show off a completed transformation alongside the 💇 or ✂️ emojis.

History

This emoji was added in Unicode 8.0 in 2015 as part of the expanded skin tone modifiers initiative. It traces its digital roots back to early Japanese mobile carrier sets, which featured gender-neutral characters to represent common service-industry encounters like haircuts and salon visits.

Details

Glyph

💇🏻

Unicode

U+1F487 U+1F3FB

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f487_1f3fb:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC87;&#xD83C;&#xDFFB;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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