Person: red hair Emoji

People

A head-and-shoulders portrait of an adult with vibrant, bright red hair. The features are intentionally neutral to focus on the hair color as the defining trait.

Usage Context

Used to describe people with natural red or ginger hair. People often use it alongside other hair-related emojis like 👩‍🦱 or 👨‍🦳 to specify the appearance of a friend, family member, or themselves in a message.

History

This emoji was added in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0. It was the result of a massive public push to improve representation in digital communication, ensuring that users could accurately describe diverse physical traits that were previously excluded from the standard set.

Details

Glyph

🧑‍🦰

Unicode

U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B0

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d1_200d_1f9b0:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD1;‍&#xD83E;&#xDDB0;

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

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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