Fairy emoji 🧚
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F9DA
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🧚 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Fairy 🧚 is tagged with these keywords: fairytale, fantasy, myth, person, pixie, tale, wings.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing fairytale or fantasy in the emoji search brings up 🧚.
Fairy 🧚 is one of 33 emoji in the fantasy characters subgroup of people & body (390 emoji), next to 🧚♂️ 🧚♀️ 🧛 🧛♂️.
🧚 comes in 5 skin tones, from 🧚🏻 to 🧚🏿, plus the default yellow. Tap a tone above to copy it.
Will 🧚 show on my friend's phone?
🧚 was added in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
How to type 🧚
Any emoji picker finds 🧚 when you search for fairy.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type fairy.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type fairy in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type fairy.
Codes for developers
Fairy 🧚 is a single code point, U+1F9DA. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F9DA | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧚 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧚 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9DA"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9DA} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%9A | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 9A |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🧚 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the fairy emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧚 "fairy" and links it with fairytale, fantasy, myth, person. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the fantasy characters subgroup of people & body.
When was the fairy emoji added?
In Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. Phones updated since about 2018 show it.
Can I change the skin tone of 🧚?
Yes. 🧚 has these skin tones: 🧚🏻 🧚🏼 🧚🏽 🧚🏾 🧚🏿. Tap one on this page to copy it, or set a default skin tone on the emoji page so every emoji on this site uses it.