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💈Barber Pole Emoji
💈 is the barber pole emoji, U+1F488, one of 17 in the Other Places set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for barber, cut and fresh.
What 💈 barber pole means
A catch-all of scenes and attractions. The city and sky pairs do most of the work: 🌃, 🌆 and 🌇 caption skylines and evenings, 🌅 opens a morning post. 🎢 stands for an emotional stretch rather than a theme park, and 🎪 for chaos. ♨️ is the standard Japanese map symbol for a hot spring, which is why it looks like a diagram.
Unicode tags this one barber, cut and fresh and files it under Travel & Places → Other Places.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F488 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 💈 | |
| HTML decimal | 💈 | |
| CSS | \1F488 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F488} | |
| Python | \U0001F488 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC88 | |
| Rust | \u{1f488} | |
| Swift | \u{1F488} | |
| PHP | \u{1F488} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%92%88 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 92 88 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC88 | |
| Base64 | 8J+SiA== | |
| Decimal | 128136 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
- barber
- cut
- fresh
- haircut
- pole
- shave
Appears in these collections
How to type 💈
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “barber pole”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “barber”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f488and Enter. - HTML — paste
💈.
How 💈 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 💈Apple
- 💈Segoe
- 💈Noto
- 💈System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 💈 barber pole emoji mean?+
💈 is the barber pole emoji, tagged barber, cut and fresh. A catch-all of scenes and attractions. The city and sky pairs do most of the work: 🌃, 🌆 and 🌇 caption skylines and evenings, 🌅 opens a morning post. 🎢 stands for an emotional stretch rather than a theme park, and 🎪 for chaos. ♨️ is the standard Japanese map symbol for a hot spring, which is why it looks like a diagram.
What is the Unicode code for 💈?+
barber pole is U+1F488. In HTML that is 💈, in CSS \1F488, and in JavaScript \u{1F488}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 💈 emoji added?+
barber pole got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Other Places in Travel & Places.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 💈 barber pole.