Person: curly hair: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A gender-neutral figure with textured, curly hair depicted in a medium-light skin tone. This icon represents an adult individual, focusing on hair texture and complexion rather than gender identity.

Usage Context

Used to describe a specific person or to talk about hair types in general. It frequently appears in group chats or social media bios to help users provide a more accurate physical description of themselves or others, often alongside other hair variations like 🧑‍🦰 or 🧑‍🦳.

History

This emoji was added as part of the Emoji 12.0 update in 2019. It reflects the push for greater inclusivity in digital communication, allowing users to move away from binary gender assignments and toward more granular, personalized character representations that mirror real-world diversity.

Details

Glyph

🧑🏼‍🦱

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+1F3FC U+200D U+1F9B1

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_1f3fc_200d_1f9b1:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB1;

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

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