curly hair Emoji

curly hair is a component emoji — a modifier piece (skin tone or hair style) designed to combine with a compatible base emoji rather than to be sent on its own. Most messaging apps handle this combination automatically through a modifier picker.

Category context: The Component category holds building-block elements — skin tones and hair styles — that combine with base emoji (like hand gestures or people) rather than being used as standalone symbols on their own.

Cataloged under Hair Style within the Component category, curly hair is the 2nd of 9 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 11 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F9B1.

💡 Good to know: If this component displays as a standalone colored square or swatch rather than combining with another emoji, your messaging app may not support that specific modifier combination yet.