Supervillain emoji 🦹
Emoji 11.0 (2018) · U+1F9B9
Skin tones · Tap a tone to copy it.
What 🦹 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Supervillain 🦹 is tagged with these keywords: bad, criminal, evil, superpower, villain.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing bad or criminal in the emoji search brings up 🦹.
Supervillain 🦹 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 11.0 (2018). 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 supervillain.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type supervillain.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type supervillain in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type supervillain.
Codes for developers
Supervillain 🦹 is a single code point, U+1F9B9. 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+1F9B9 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🦹 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🦹 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9B9"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9B9} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A6%B9 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A6 B9 |
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 | supervillain |
| Português | supervilão |
| Español | personaje de supervillano |
| Italiano | supercattivo |
| Français | super-vilain |
| Deutsch | Bösewicht |
| Türkçe | süper kötü |
| Bahasa Indonesia | penjahat super |
| Polski | superłotr |
| Русский | суперзлодей |
| 日本語 | 悪役 |
| 한국어 | 슈퍼 악당 |
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All people & body emoji →Questions people ask
What does the supervillain emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🦹 "supervillain" and links it with bad, criminal, evil, superpower. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the fantasy characters subgroup of people & body.
When was the supervillain 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.