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🦱Curly Hair Emoji
🦱 is the curly hair emoji, U+1F9B1, one of 4 in the Hair Styles set. It arrived with Emoji 11.0 (2018) and is commonly used for afro, curly and hair.
What 🦱 curly hair means
Four components rather than standalone emoji: red, curly and white hair plus bald. Each joins a person emoji with a zero-width joiner, so 👩🦰 is a woman followed by the red hair component. They were added in 2018. Alone they render as a lock of hair. There is no blond component; 👱 has covered blond hair since 2010.
Unicode tags this one afro, curly and hair and files it under Components → Hair Styles.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9B1 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🦱 | |
| HTML decimal | 🦱 | |
| CSS | \1F9B1 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9B1} | |
| Python | \U0001F9B1 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDB1 | |
| Rust | \u{1f9b1} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9B1} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9B1} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A6%B1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 B1 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDB1 | |
| Base64 | 8J+msQ== | |
| Decimal | 129457 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
- afro
- curly
- hair
- ringlets
Appears in these collections
How to type 🦱
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “curly hair”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “afro”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9b1and 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 🦱 curly hair emoji mean?+
🦱 is the curly hair emoji, tagged afro, curly and hair. Four components rather than standalone emoji: red, curly and white hair plus bald. Each joins a person emoji with a zero-width joiner, so 👩🦰 is a woman followed by the red hair component. They were added in 2018. Alone they render as a lock of hair. There is no blond component; 👱 has covered blond hair since 2010.
What is the Unicode code for 🦱?+
curly hair is U+1F9B1. In HTML that is 🦱, in CSS \1F9B1, and in JavaScript \u{1F9B1}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🦱 emoji added?+
curly hair got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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 Hair Styles in Components.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🦱 curly hair.