Superhero emoji 🦸
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F9B8
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🦸 means
Superhero 🦸 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: good, hero, superpower.
Those words also drive emoji search: try good or hero on your phone to find 🦸.
On the emoji keyboard, 🦸 sits with the fantasy characters (33 emoji) inside people & body, which has 390 emoji, for example 🦸♂️ 🦸♀️ 🦹 🦹♂️.
You can send 🦸 in 5 skin tones (🦸🏻 to 🦸🏿) or in the default yellow; tap any of them above to copy it.
Will 🦸 show on my friend's phone?
🦸 dates from Emoji 11.0 (2018). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🦸
To find 🦸 quickly, type superhero into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type superhero.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type superhero in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type superhero.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🦸 as one code point, U+1F9B8: 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+1F9B8 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦸 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦸 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9B8"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9B8} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%B8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 B8 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🦸 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | superhero |
| Português | super-herói |
| Español | personaje de superhéroe |
| Italiano | supereroe |
| Français | super-héros |
| Deutsch | Superheld(in) |
| Türkçe | süper kahraman |
| Bahasa Indonesia | pahlawan super |
| Polski | superbohater |
| Русский | супергерой |
| 日本語 | スーパーヒーロー |
| 한국어 | 히로인 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the superhero emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦸 "superhero" and links it with good, hero, superpower. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the fantasy characters subgroup of people & body.
When was the superhero emoji added?
In Emoji 11.0, released in 2018. Phones updated since about 2019 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.