Ghost emoji 👻
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F47B
What 👻 means
Ghost 👻 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: boo, creature, excited, face, fairy, fairytale, fantasy, halloween, haunting, monster.
Those words also drive emoji search: try boo or creature on your phone to find 👻.
On the emoji keyboard, 👻 sits with the costumes and characters (8 emoji) inside smileys & emotion, which has 172 emoji, for example 👽 👾 🤖 💩.
Will 👻 show on my friend's phone?
👻 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 👻
To find 👻 quickly, type ghost into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type ghost.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type ghost in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type ghost.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 👻 as one code point, U+1F47B: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F47B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 👻 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 👻 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F47B"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F47B} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%91%BB | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 BB |
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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What does the ghost emoji mean?
Unicode calls 👻 "ghost" and links it with boo, creature, excited, face. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the costumes and characters subgroup of smileys & emotion.
When was the ghost emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the ghost emoji?
To find 👻 quickly, type ghost into the emoji search.