The bald character is an emoji hair component (U+1F9B2) used to indicate a bald hairstyle in person emoji sequences. On its own, it typically displays as a single pictograph showing a bald head, and it has default emoji presentation on modern platforms. When used in Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) sequences with person bases like person, man, or woman, it helps form composite emojis such as person: bald, man: bald, and woman: bald, where the component itself does not appear separately. Skin tone is applied to the base person emoji rather than to this component, with the recommended order being person + skin tone + ZWJ + bald.
On Apple/iOS, the standalone glyph appears as a bald head emoji, and the ZWJ sequences render as unified designs (for example, 👩🦲, 👨🦲, and 🧑🦲). If a platform or app does not support the sequence, the parts may render individually or as a missing glyph box, exposing the component visibly. Because this character has emoji presentation by default, a variation selector is generally unnecessary, though text-style fallback may appear in environments lacking color emoji support. Introduced alongside other hair components to improve representation options, it is mostly used as part of larger sequences rather than as a standalone symbol in text.
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