The hair pick emoji is 🪮, U+1FAAE, added in Emoji 15.0. It is also the only comb in Unicode’s emoji list.
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A comb with long teeth
Wiktionary defines this sense of pick as a comb with long, wide-set teeth for hair that is tightly curled. Wikipedia calls it an Afro pick, a comb used on Afro-textured hair and sometimes worn in it, and dates its history back at least 5,000 years.
Where Unicode files it
CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, gives Hair pick five: Afro, comb, groom, hair and pick. Unicode lists it with clothing, between Woman’s boot and Crown.
Emoji 15.0 is recent enough that an older phone may show 🪮 as an empty box. The two plain ASCII combs need no emoji font.
Questions and answers
Is there a comb emoji?
Yes, this one. No emoji has comb in its name, but CLDR files Hair pick under comb. For a flat comb, |_|_|_|_|_|_| is seven bars and six underscores.
What does the hair pick emoji mean?
A hair pick. By Wikipedia its teeth reach down to the scalp, so the hair can be pulled out from the roots into a shape.
Is there a hairbrush emoji?
No. Two emoji names hold the word brush, Paintbrush and Toothbrush, and CLDR files brush under the toothbrush alone. For brushing or combing hair, the hair pick is the nearest tile.
Is there an Afro emoji?
No emoji is named Afro. CLDR files the word under Hair pick and under the curly hair part that Unicode joins to a person to make Person: curly hair, from Emoji 12.1. The combo Curls out sets the two side by side.
All 48 items
Hair pick emoji 13
💈Barber poleU+1F488. Filed under barber and haircut. Emoji 0.6.
👑CrownU+1F451. The emoji after Hair pick. Emoji 0.6.
🪮Hair pickU+1FAAE. The only emoji CLDR files under comb. Also filed under Afro. Emoji 15.0.
🧴Lotion bottleU+1F9F4. Filed under lotion and shampoo. Emoji 11.0.
🪞MirrorU+1FA9E. Filed under mirror and reflection. Emoji 13.0.
💇Person getting haircutU+1F487. Filed under groom, hair and barber. Unicode’s note: usually indicates a beauty parlor. Emoji 0.6.
🧑🦱Person: curly hairU+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F9B1. Unicode builds it from Person and a curly hair component, which CLDR files under afro. Emoji 12.1.
🪒RazorU+1FA92. Filed under razor and shave. Emoji 12.0.
✂️ScissorsU+2702 U+FE0F. Filed under cut and scissors. Emoji 0.6.
🚿ShowerU+1F6BF. Filed under water. Emoji 1.0.
🧼SoapU+1F9FC. Filed under soap and lather. Emoji 11.0.
✨SparklesU+2728. For a fresh style. Emoji 0.6.
🪥ToothbrushU+1FAA5. The only emoji CLDR files under brush. Unicode has no hairbrush. Emoji 13.0.
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Comb symbols 9
梳Comb, as a Han characterU+68B3. Unicode’s Han database defines it: comb; brush.
ШComb, teeth up, the letter shaU+0428. Cyrillic capital letter sha. Three teeth on a flat spine.
髪Hair, as a Japanese characterU+9AEA. The Han database defines it in one word: hair.
櫛Kushi, a Japanese comb characterU+6ADB. The Han database defines it: comb out; weed out, eliminate. One of its Japanese readings is kushi.
⫚Pick with a handle, a maths signU+2ADA. Pitchfork with tee top. Three long tines under a bar, like a pick held teeth down.
шSmall comb, the small letter shaU+0448. Cyrillic small letter sha.
彡Three strokes of hair, a Han radicalU+5F61. The Han database defines it: hair; Kangxi radical 59.
⋔Three tines, a maths signU+22D4. Unicode names it Pitchfork. Three tines on a stem.
╥Two teeth under a spineU+2565. Box drawings down double and horizontal single. Type several in a row for a longer comb.
Typed combs 6
[]=====A hair pick on its side: a handle and long teeth. Plain ASCII
[]≡≡≡≡A pick with three long teeth
|_|_|_|_|_|_|A comb, teeth up. Plain ASCII
ШШШШШA wide-tooth comb: five letters sha in a row
┌┬┬┬┬┬┬┬┐A comb, teeth down, in box-drawing characters
╒╤╤╤╤╤╤╤╕A comb with a thick spine
Comb drawings 2
Comb, drawnThree lines of ASCII
Hair pick, drawnSix lines of ASCII
Hair day lines 7
Fresh cut, new me 🪮After the barber
Good hair day 🪮A short status
Hair appointment at ___ 🪮A reminder to fill in
Picked out and ready 🪮Before you leave the house
Running late, hair is not negotiable 🪮An honest excuse
Volume: all the way up 🪮A caption
Wash day, done 🪮For the end of a long one
Hair pick combos 11
💈🪮Barber visitBarber pole, then hair pick.
🪮🧴Comb and productHair pick, then lotion bottle.
🪮✂️Comb and scissorsHair pick, then scissors.
🪮👑Crown careHair pick, then crown.
🧑🦱🪮✨Curls outPerson: curly hair, then hair pick, then sparkles.
🪮⏰Five more minutesHair pick, then alarm clock.
💇✨Fresh from the chairPerson getting haircut, then sparkles.
🧳🪮Packed the combLuggage, then hair pick.
🪮🪞Pick and mirrorHair pick, then mirror.
🪮📸Picture dayHair pick, then camera with flash.
🧼🚿🪮Wash daySoap, then shower, then hair pick.
How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-08 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Hair pick is U+1FAAE, Emoji 15.0, in the group Objects, subgroup clothing: Woman’s boot is printed before it and Crown after it. CLDR gives it five search words (Afro, comb, groom, hair, pick); it is the only emoji filed under comb, the only other character filed under Afro is the curly hair component (U+1F9B1), no emoji name holds the word comb, and Toothbrush is the only emoji filed under brush. Character names are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt); the note on Haircut (usually indicates a beauty parlor) is from NamesList.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/NamesList.txt); the meanings of the four Han characters are the kDefinition lines of the Unihan database, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Unihan.zip), and kushi is a kJapaneseKun reading there. That a pick is a long-toothed, wide-spaced comb for tightly curled hair is from Wiktionary, pick (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pick, CC BY-SA 4.0); that an Afro pick is used on Afro-textured hair, is sometimes worn in the hair and has a history of at least 5,000 years is from Wikipedia, Comb (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comb#Afro_pick, CC BY-SA 4.0); that its long teeth reach down to the scalp so the hair can be stretched out into a shape is from Wikipedia, Afro (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro). The six typed combs, the two drawings, the seven lines and the eleven combos are this site’s own work. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data and Unihan data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.