Ninja emoji 🥷
Emoji 13.0 (2020) · U+1F977
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🥷 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Ninja 🥷 is tagged with these keywords: assassin, fight, fighter, hidden, person, secret, skills, sly, soldier, stealth.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing assassin or fight in the emoji search brings up 🥷.
Ninja 🥷 is one of 82 emoji in the jobs and roles 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 13.0 (2020). 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 ninja.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type ninja.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type ninja in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type ninja.
Codes for developers
Ninja 🥷 is a single code point, U+1F977. 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+1F977 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🥷 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🥷 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F977"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F977} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A5%B7 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A5 B7 |
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 ninja emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🥷 "ninja" and links it with assassin, fight, fighter, hidden. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the jobs and roles subgroup of people & body.
When was the ninja emoji added?
In Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. Phones updated since about 2021 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.