person: blond hair
Unicode: 1F471
Description
A person, depicted as a gender-neutral adult, with flowing long blonde hair. The person is typically shown facing forward with a neutral or slightly smiling expression.
Group:
People & Body > person
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Neutral, versatile, used to represent individuals with long blonde hair across various contexts.
Backstory
This emoji, 'Person: Blond Hair', was approved as part of Unicode 4.0 in 2003 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015. It was created to provide representation for people with blonde hair, regardless of gender. In later Unicode versions, gender-specific variants (man: blond hair, woman: blond hair) were introduced, but this emoji remains the gender-neutral option.
Usage Examples
- Describing someone's appearance: 'Found my friend with the 👱 hairstyle at the party!'
- Referring to a character: 'The main character has a distinctive 👱 look.'
- In a general description: 'That group over there includes a few people with 👱 hair.'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Often associated with a stereotype of beauty or certain character types in media, but increasingly used simply to represent people with blonde hair.
East Asian culture:
May be used to represent foreign individuals or characters, or simply anyone with long blonde hair, without strong cultural connotations beyond the visual appearance.