🦳 White Hair emoji meaning

🦳 stands for white or gray hair and is mainly a building block for emojis like πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦³ and πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦³. Apple shows a close crop of the top corner of a yellow head with soft cream-white hair.

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What 🦳 means

On its own, 🦳 is rarely sent on purpose. It is designed to combine with a person emoji to create a white-haired version, such as πŸ§‘β€πŸ¦³, πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦³ or πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦³. If it appears alone beside a face, the app may not have merged the two. When typed alone, it can refer to going gray, aging, platinum or silver hair dye, or joking about feeling old. The tone is usually neutral or lightly humorous.

In texting

Alone, 🦳 often means gray hair, getting older, or a joke like "this stress is giving me white hair." It can also be a broken white-haired person emoji.

🦳 How people use it

  • Building a white-haired person emoji
  • Joking about going gray from stress
  • Talking about silver or platinum dye
  • Referring to grandparents or older relatives

Example messages

found my first gray hair today 🦳😭

this group project is giving me white hair 🦳

going platinum next week 🦳✨

grandpa still beats me at chess πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦³

Common 🦳 combinations

  • πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦³Woman with white hair
  • πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦³Man with white hair
  • πŸ§‘β€πŸ¦³Person with white hair

🦳 vs similar emojis

🦳 vs πŸ‘΅πŸ‘΅ is an elderly woman emoji, while 🦳 only shows white hair and can apply to any age, including dyed hair.
🦳 vs πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦³πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦³ is a full face with white hair, while 🦳 is just the hair component.

Emoji details

Namewhite hair
CodepointsU+1F9B3
CategoryPeople
Keywordsgray, hair, old, white

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FAQ

What does the 🦳 white hair emoji mean?

🦳 stands for white or gray hair and is mainly a building block for emojis like πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦³ and πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦³. Apple shows a close crop of the top corner of a yellow head with soft cream-white hair.

Why does 🦳 look cut off?

It is a hair component meant to be joined with a face, so alone it shows only a cropped corner of a head. Combined, it becomes emojis like πŸ‘©β€πŸ¦³ or πŸ‘¨β€πŸ¦³.

Does 🦳 mean old?

Often, but not always. It can mean aging, but people also use it for dyed silver or platinum hair.

Are the backgrounds transparent?

Yes, every PNG has a transparent background.