Zombie emoji 🧟
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F9DF
What 🧟 means
Zombie 🧟 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: apocalypse, dead, halloween, horror, scary, undead, walking.
Those words also drive emoji search: try apocalypse or dead 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 🧟♂️ 🧟♀️ 🧌 .
Will 🧟 show on my friend's phone?
🧟 dates from Emoji 5.0 (2017). Unless a phone has gone years without an update, it shows it.
How to type 🧟
To find 🧟 quickly, type zombie into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type zombie.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type zombie in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type zombie.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🧟 as one code point, U+1F9DF: 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+1F9DF | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🧟 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🧟 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F9DF"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9DF} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A7%9F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 9F |
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 zombie emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🧟 "zombie" and links it with apocalypse, dead, halloween, horror. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the fantasy characters subgroup of people & body.
When was the zombie emoji added?
In Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. Phones updated since about 2018 show it.
How do I type the zombie emoji?
To find 🧟 quickly, type zombie into the emoji search.