Man: Curly Hair
👨🦱 is the man: curly hair emoji, part of Unicode's People & Body group, added in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unicode's keyword list links it with “adult” and “bro”.
Skin tones
Every tone means the same thing. Tap one to copy it or open its page.
Where person emoji usually appear
DBEmoji editorial interpretationApplies to every emoji in this Unicode subgroup, not only this one.
- Representing a person in a story, bio, or how-to
- Choosing an avatar that matches age, hair, or skin tone
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- CLDR short name
- man: curly hair
- Codepoint
- U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9B1
- Hex
- 1F468 200D 1F9B1
- Emoji version
- 11.0
- Unicode version
- 11.0
- First released
- 2018
- Unicode group
- People & Body
- Unicode subgroup
- person
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
GitHub shortcode
From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.
:curly_haired_man:Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRadult · bro · curly hair · man
Tags
How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
Download as image
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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork
Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of 👨🦱. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.
Questions people ask
- What does the 👨🦱 man: curly hair emoji mean?
- 👨🦱 is the man: curly hair emoji, part of Unicode's People & Body group, added in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unicode's keyword list links it with “adult” and “bro”.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 👨🦱?
- U+1F468 U+200D U+1F9B1.
- When was the 👨🦱 man: curly hair emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 11.0, published in 2018, alongside Unicode 11.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 👨🦱 on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “man”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 👨🦱 from this page with one click.
- Does 👨🦱 come in different skin tones?
- Yes. There are 5 skin-tone versions: 👨🏻🦱 👨🏼🦱 👨🏽🦱 👨🏾🦱 👨🏿🦱. They all mean the same thing; long-press 👨🦱 on a phone keyboard to pick one.
- What is the shortcode for 👨🦱?
- On GitHub, type :curly_haired_man: and it turns into 👨🦱 — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.