Person: curly hair emoji 🧑🦱
Emoji 12.1 (2019) · U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B1
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🧑🦱 means
Person: curly hair 🧑🦱 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: adult, curly hair, person.
Those words also drive emoji search: try adult or curly hair on your phone to find 🧑🦱.
On the emoji keyboard, 🧑🦱 sits with the people (28 emoji) inside people & body, which has 390 emoji, for example 👩🦳 🧑🦳 👩🦲 🧑🦲.
You can send 🧑🦱 in 5 skin tones (🧑🏻🦱 to 🧑🏿🦱) or in the default yellow; tap any of them above to copy it.
Will 🧑🦱 show on my friend's phone?
🧑🦱 dates from Emoji 12.1 (2019). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
What 🧑🦱 is made of
Technically 🧑🦱 is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🧑 person + 🦱. Older phones show them one after the other.
How to type 🧑🦱
To find 🧑🦱 quickly, type person: curly hair into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type person: curly hair.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type person: curly hair in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type person: curly hair.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🧑🦱 as 3 code points, U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B1: 11 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 5 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B1 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧑‍🦱 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧑‍🦱 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9D1 \200D \1F9B1"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9D1}\u200D\u{1F9B1} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%91%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%A6%B1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 91 E2 80 8D F0 9F A6 B1 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧑🦱 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | person: curly hair |
| Português | pessoa: cabelo cacheado |
| Español | persona adulta: pelo rizado |
| Italiano | persona: capelli ricci |
| Français | adulte : cheveux bouclés |
| Deutsch | Person: lockiges Haar |
| Türkçe | yetişkin: kıvırcık saç |
| Bahasa Indonesia | dewasa: rambut keriting |
| Polski | dorosły: kręcone włosy |
| Русский | взрослый: кудрявые волосы |
| 日本語 | 大人: 巻き毛 |
| 한국어 | 사람: 곱슬머리 |
More emoji like this
All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the person: curly hair emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧑🦱 "person: curly hair" and links it with adult, curly hair, person. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the people subgroup of people & body.
When was the person: curly hair emoji added?
In Emoji 12.1, released in 2019. Phones updated since about 2020 show it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🧑🦱?
Yes. 🧑🦱 has these skin tones: 🧑🏻🦱 🧑🏼🦱 🧑🏽🦱 🧑🏾🦱 🧑🏿🦱. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.