The person: medium-dark skin tone, curly hair emoji brings instant big-hair energy and melanin-rich glow, like stepping out of a salon with a perfect twist-out and a playlist to match. It’s a go-to for anyone repping their curls, celebrating a new routine, or posting the classic “wash day is a whole workout” update. You’ll see it in humidity rants, coil check-ins, and captions where the hair is the main character—because, honestly, it is.
In chats and TikTok comments, it reads as “me, logging on with volume,” or a playful flex after you finally nailed your definition without crunch. It can be flirty (“fresh diffused, who dis”), celebratory (“curl pattern on 10”), or delightfully dramatic for day-five bun chaos and “shrinkage humbled me” memes.
On Apple/iOS, the design shows a front-facing, gender-inclusive bust with a soft neutral smile, warm medium-dark skin, and a halo of tight, dark curls that steal the scene. Clean shading, a simple neckline, and centered framing keep the focus squarely on those textured coils—instantly recognizable in stories, comments, and bio lines everywhere.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2450 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| 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 18 - 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) | 1f9d1, 1f3fe, 200d, 1f9b1 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9D1, U+1F3FE, U+200D, U+1F9B1 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129489, 127998, 8205, 129457 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x91, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xF0 0x9F 0xA6 0xB1 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 91, F0 9F 8F BE, E2 80 8D, F0 9F A6 B1 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 221, 360 237 217 276, 342 200 215, 360 237 246 261 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDD1, 0xD83C 0xDFFE, 0x200D, 0xD83E 0xDDB1 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83eddd1, d83cdffe, 200d, d83eddb1 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56785, 55356 57342, 8205, 55358 56753 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9D1 0x0001F3FE 0x0000200D 0x0001F9B1 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9D1, 01F3FE, 200D, 01F9B1 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129489, 127998, 8205, 129457 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9D1\U0001F3FE\u200D\U0001F9B1" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\x91\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe\xe2\x80\x8d\xf0\x9f\xa6\xb1" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDD1\uD83C\uDFFE\u200D\uD83E\uDDB1" |
