Person getting haircut: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A person with a dark skin tone sitting in a chair while having their hair trimmed with scissors. The image shows the character from the shoulders up, often captured in the middle of a grooming session at a salon.

Usage Context

Used to signal a trip to the barbershop or hair salon, a fresh new look, or the desire to change up one's personal style. It is frequently sent as an update to friends before a transformation or when showing off a completed style alongside 💇 or 💈.

History

The base character was introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. The option to apply diverse skin tones was added in 2015 as part of the effort to make character-based emojis more inclusive, allowing users to better represent their own appearance in digital conversations.

Details

Glyph

💇🏿

Unicode

U+1F487 U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f487_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC87;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-activity

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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