hair pick Emoji
🪮 · U+1FAAE · Emoji 15.0
What does the hair pick emoji mean?
Meaning reviewed and updated July 2026 · Unicode data from the official Unicode Standard
When styling and grooming their hair, especially for curly or textured hairstyles, individuals reach for the 🪮 emoji to represent a hair pick, a tool used to detangle, style, and add volume to hair, with its main figurative use being to symbolize black hair care and culture, and its slang use referring to the process of meticulously grooming one's hair, while also being used to express pride in one's hair texture and style, the emoji has become a symbol of self-care and identity.
How the hair pick emoji is used
The 🪮 emoji is frequently used in social media captions and comments, particularly on platforms like Instagram and TikTok, where users share their hair care routines and showcase their hairstyles, with a tone that is often celebratory and empowering, and its usage tends to skew towards a younger generation who are active on these platforms and value self-expression and diversity, the emoji is also used in texting and online forums where users discuss hair care and share tips and advice.
hair pick emoji examples
- just used my hair pick 🪮 and my fro is looking amazing today
- who else uses a 🪮 to detangle their hair in the morning
How to copy the hair pick emoji
To use the hair pick emoji, tap the Copy button above, then paste it (long-press then Paste on mobile, or Ctrl+V / Cmd+V on desktop) anywhere you can type: messages, captions, usernames, bios and documents. It copies the real Unicode character (U+1FAAE), so it works on every app and platform, no download needed.
Also known as
hair pick emoji on different platforms
How the hair pick emoji looks across emoji sets. These designs come from openly-licensed sets (Twemoji, Google Noto, OpenMoji). See image credits.
hair pick Emoji Details
| Emoji | 🪮 |
| Name | hair pick |
| Category | Objects |
| Codepoints | U+1FAAE |
| Shortcode | :hair_pick: |
| Emoji version | 15.0 |
| Unicode version | 15.0 |
hair pick Emoji FAQ
When styling and grooming their hair, especially for curly or textured hairstyles, individuals reach for the 🪮 emoji to represent a hair pick, a tool used to detangle, style, and add volume to hair, with its main figurative use being to symbolize black hair care and culture, and its slang use referring to the process of meticulously grooming one's hair, while also being used to express pride in one's hair texture and style, the emoji has become a symbol of self-care and identity.
Tap the Copy button at the top of this page, then paste 🪮 wherever you type. Because it copies the real Unicode character, it works in every app on iPhone, Android, Windows and Mac.
It is U+1FAAE, introduced in Emoji version 15.0 (Unicode 15.0). Its shortcode is :hair_pick:.
People also search for the hair pick emoji as afro, comb, groom, hair, pick.