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White hair

White hair Emoji

Objects

A head of hair rendered in a stark, snow-white or silver-gray tone. It captures the texture of aging or a stylized, bleached hair look.

Usage Context

Used to discuss getting older, wisdom, or personal grooming choices. It is frequently sent when talking about grandparents, life experience, or changing hair colors. It often appears alongside 👴 or 👵 to emphasize the aging process.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0. Its inclusion followed a widespread push for greater representation of aging populations and diverse physical traits in digital communication, moving beyond the standard brown, blonde, or black hair options.

Details

Glyph
🦳
Unicode
U+1F9B3
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f9b3:
HTML Entity
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Specifications

Vendor Google
Category Objects
Subcategory hair-style
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Tags
grayhairoldwhiteobjectsstyleagingelderlysilverwisdomhaircut

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.

Apache 2.0SIL OFL 1.1Noto Repository

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