🧑‍🦱

Person: Curly Hair Emoji 🧑‍🦱

What 🧑‍🦱 means

A generically designed gender-neutral face of a person with curly, short hair. It refers to any person with curly hair, irrespective of all biased labels. These curls could either be natural curls or styled curls.

This emoji is available in the designated skin tones almost across all platforms.

How and when to use it

If you want to react to some fantastic curly hair that you came across on social media and not seem biased on any grounds, use 🧑‍🦱.
You can also use 🧑‍🦱 in picture captions for posts about your own curls or someone else's; this would help secure your identity, in case you are sensitive about it.
If you're sending some gorgeous curls to your buddies on DM, send along the 🧑‍🦱 emoji.
You could also use 🧑‍🦱 to describe a random person you walked past, but couldn't get over their mesmerizing hair (creepy AF, but it happens! People have amazing hair!).

Other Names

🧑‍🦱 Curls
🧑‍🦱 Curly Hair
🧑‍🦱 Coiled Curls
🧑‍🦱 Natural Curls
🧑‍🦱 Soft Curls
🧑‍🦱 Afro
🧑‍🦱 Wavy Curls
🧑‍🦱 Beach Curls
🧑‍🦱 Short Curls

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person
Codepoints: U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B1
Emoji version: Emoji 12.1
Shortcodes: :curly_haired_person: Slack:person_curly_hair: Discord
Keywords: adult, curly hair, person
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.