An Afro pick, the long-toothed comb made for coiled hair, proposed by Rhianna Jones and Jennifer Daniel and added to the keyboard in 2022. Their proposal traced the tool back roughly 6,000 years to Egypt and to the 1970s Black is Beautiful movement, and paired it with ✊ Raised Fist to mean Black pride and solidarity as much as an actual grooming tool.
What 🪮 means
A hair pick with a wide-toothed comb and upright handle — the essential tool for afro-textured hair. The 🪮 Hair Pick emoji (Emoji 15.0, September 2022) was a meaningful addition: everyday representation for Black hair care, styling routines, and the culture around them.
Many designs nod to the iconic fist-handle picks of the 1970s, carrying a bit of that history onto the keyboard.
How and when to use it
- Hair-day content: "Wash day complete. The 🪮 and I have been through a journey today."
- Barbershop and salon posts: "Fresh shape-up, 🪮 in the back pocket, unstoppable."
- Celebrating natural hair milestones: "One year loc'd 🪮✨"
The lowdown
- Category
- Objects › clothing
- Codepoints
U+1FAAE- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.0
- Shortcodes
:hair_pick:- Keywords
- Afro, comb, groom, hair, pick
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 — 🪮 Hair Pick or 🔍 Magnifying Glass Tilted Left?