Symbols · Emoji 0.6
➰Curly Loop Emoji
Generally, the ➰ emoji just means "loop" or "curl." It’s often used to draw attention to something circular or to add a decorative element to a text.
The ➰ emoji is a curly loop, often resembling a spiral or a decorative curl.
- Unicode
- U+27B0
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :curly_
loop: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the ➰ Curly Loop emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 3 of them.
02 — Platforms
Curly Loop emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the curly loop as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Curly Loop emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :curly_loop:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the curly loop, code point U+27B0.
04 — How to type
How to type the ➰ Curly Loop emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+27B0 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Curly Loop emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the curly loop as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Curly Loop emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around curly loop for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What ➰ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the curly loop and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What ➰ means in other countries
A vague decorative squiggle with no fixed meaning, originally tied to older telecom iconography for voicemail.
Used loosely to represent confusion, a doodle, or “whatever” energy.
Originally represented a voicemail or answering-machine tape loop, rarely known today.
Occasionally used as a vague, shrug-adjacent squiggle reaction to something.
Before you send it: Use it as a vague squiggle reaction — nobody will read a specific meaning into it.
09 — Apps
What ➰ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+27B0, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
10 — Related
Emojis similar to the Curly Loop emoji
Same family (other-symbol) — often confused with curly loop or used alongside it.
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Splatter
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♻️Recycling Symbol
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❇️Sparkle
Collections ➰ belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
11 — Difference
➰ vs 👩🦱 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Curly Loop
Code: U+27B0 · added 2010
Shortcode: :curly_loop:
Generally, the ➰ emoji just means "loop" or "curl."
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.
12 — History
Where the ➰ Curly Loop 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+27B0 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
NTT DoCoMo E70A, KDDI au EB31.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Curly Loop was approved as U+27B0 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.
13 — FAQ