💈Barber Pole Emoji
Generally, the 💈 emoji just means “haircut. ” It's a quick way to show you’re talking about getting or giving a haircut.
The 💈 emoji represents a barber pole.
- Unicode
- U+1F488
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :barber:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 💈 Barber Pole emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as fresh emoji.
Barber Pole emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the barber pole as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Barber Pole emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :barber:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F488.
How to type the 💈 Barber Pole emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Barber Pole emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the barber pole as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Barber Pole emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around barber pole for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 💈, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 💈 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 💈 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 💈 Barber Pole emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F488 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
💈 existed there as
KDDI au EAA2, SoftBank E320.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Barber Pole was approved as U+1F488 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 💈 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.