The man getting haircut emoji is the digital fresh-fade announcement: a guy in the salon chair, cape on, scissors looming, ready to emerge 10x sharper. It’s perfect for “appointment day,” glow-ups, back-to-school cleanups, or that post-breakup reinvention arc. People also toss it in sarcastically when a friend’s hair is serving ‘mop mode’ and needs a miracle, or when a DIY clipper session went… creatively wrong. It can read as self-care, new era, or pure vanity with a wink.
On Apple/iOS, you’ll spot the classic purple salon cape, a neutral-to-pleased expression, and shiny silver scissors held by a stylist’s hand near the top of his head—very barbershop-in-progress energy. The angle is front-facing, with tidy short hair that’s mid-trim, giving “about to ask for a taper” vibes. Online, it pairs well with captions like fresh fade Friday, new year new me, or before-and-after carousels. Drop it in group chats to confirm you’re on the way to the barber, flirt by hinting you’re getting cleaned up for a date, or meme it when the lineup is so crispy it should have its own security detail.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1586 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 💇♂️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 4 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 💇♂️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 💇 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 💇 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f487, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F487, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128135, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x92 0x87, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 92 87, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 222 207, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC87, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc87, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56455, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F487 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F487, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128135, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F487\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x92\x87\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC87\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
