A single decorative loop, a plain swirl, added to Unicode in 2010 with a wave of Japanese carrier symbols. It never settled into one fixed meaning the way most emoji did. People reach for it loosely for looping, repetition, or a flourish at the end of a thought, closer to a doodle than a symbol with a job.
What ➰ means
A single dark-grey line, looped at the center, with an equal end on each side. The ➰ Curly Loop emoji doesn't have a specific interpretation. It could represent anything that's slightly curled or even honing a single loop.
How and when to use it
- ➰ may represent a looped twine, thread, something that weaved itself into a loop, mostly, accidentally. For instance, "I have NO idea how my earphones always manage to screw themselves up like this ➰" or "There was an ugly loop sticking out of the embroidery ➰".
- From one perspective, ➰ can be a representation of the stage before you make a knot; essentially, the free stage, before tying up the same piece of fabric. Like, "It was then that I realized, I messed up, BIG TIME ➰" or "It was a fraction of a second before things ended ➰".
- The loop in ➰ may have quite a few use-cases. For example, "I think I'm stuck in a loop ➰", "You made me fall in love with your love loop ➰" or "It's just a never-ending loop of necessity ➰".
- While posting or reposting pictures or videos of curly hair, preferably the range between waves and 3A, you could add ➰ into the caption. This applies even while describing curly/wavy hair textures in any context.
Other Names
- ➰ Curly Hair
- ➰ Curls
- ➰ Curly
- ➰ Loop
- ➰ Thread
- ➰ Curling Loop
- ➰ Single Curl
The lowdown
- Category
- Symbols › other-symbol
- Codepoints
U+27B0- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:curly_loop:- Keywords
- curl, curly, loop
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — ➰ Curly Loop or 🪅 Piñata?