👨‍🦱

Man: Curly Hair Emoji 👨‍🦱

What 👨‍🦱 means

A generic face of a man with beautiful curled tresses with some platforms even displaying a mustache with this emoji. It refers to all those gorgeous lads with a curly mane.

The 👨‍🦱 Man: Curly Hair emoji mostly means natural curls. However, it could also fit in with the salon-curled hair and hairstyles. This emoji is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you're trying to describe a curly-haired someone you met or an old friend you recently caught up with, 👨‍🦱 can act as a great descriptor.
If you're on the way to get some beautiful curls at the hairdresser, send 👨‍🦱 in your chats to indicate that you'll soon be having curls too.
👨‍🦱 can also be used as a reaction to some gorgeous curls that you came across on social media. Don't forget to couple it up with a few ❤️ Red Heart, 😍 Smiling Face With Heart-Eyes emojis, and other such cutes emojis.
Use 👨‍🦱 in your photo captions if you're posting pictures of your own curls or that of someone else's.
If you just came across a heart-throbbing image of some breathtaking curls, and you're rushing to send it to your gang, use 👨‍🦱 either before sending the image/video to build some curiosity or with the image/video.

Other Names

👨‍🦱 Curls
👨‍🦱 Natural Curls
👨‍🦱 Afro
👨‍🦱 Kinky Curls
👨‍🦱 Styled Curls
👨‍🦱 Coiled Curls
👨‍🦱 Man With Curly Hair
👨‍🦱 Wavy Curls
👨‍🦱 Nerd Face

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person
Codepoints: U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9B1
Emoji version: Emoji 11.0
Shortcodes: :curly_haired_man: Slack:man_curly_haired: Discord
Keywords: adult, bro, curly hair, man
How it's built: Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.

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.