Person getting haircut emoji meaning

The person getting haircut emoji is a depiction of a person, either male or female, with a barber's cape around their neck and a pair of scissors cutting their hair. This emoji is often used to represent someone getting a haircut or styling their hair, or to represent the beauty or hair styling industry. It can also be used more generally to imply that something is being trimmed or cut down.

The person getting haircut emoji was approved in Unicode 6.0 and added in Emoji 1.0, see related proposal L2/09026L2/07257