🪮Hair Pick Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is talking about hair or a hair pick. It’s a visual way to represent the tool itself.
The 🪮 emoji is a hair pick.
- Unicode
- U+1FAAE
- Released
- 2022
- Shortcode
- :hair_pick:
- Skin tones
- No
⚠️ Added in Emoji 15.0. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
What does the 🪮 Hair Pick emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
Hair Pick emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FAAE — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your hair pick looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Hair Pick emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :hair_pick:.
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+1FAAE.
How to type the 🪮 Hair Pick emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Hair Pick emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Hair Pick emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around hair pick 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
Who sent the hair pick and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🪮 means in other countries
Depicts an Afro pick, a comb style tied to Black identity and, historically, the Black Power movement’s fist-handled combs.
Carries real meaning around hair pride and heritage, not just a grooming tool.
Often used simply and literally for haircare, without the deeper cultural reference registering.
Before you send it: Fine as a literal haircare emoji; be aware it can carry more weight in identity-related conversations.
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.
🪮 vs 👩🦱 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Hair Pick
Code: U+1FAAE · added 2022
Shortcode: :hair_pick:
Generally, it just means someone is talking about hair or a hair pick.
Unicode name: Woman Curly Hair
Code: U+1F469 U+200D U+1F9B1 · added 2018
Shortcode: :curly_haired_woman:
Usually, it just means a woman with curly hair.
Where the 🪮 Hair Pick emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 15.0, the hair pick has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 4.
Same character every time — U+1FAAE 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.
Hair Pick was approved as U+1FAAE and shipped in Emoji 15.0 (2022). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.