What 🧞 means
🧞 is the genie emoji, filed under People & Body in the person-fantasy subgroup of the Unicode emoji index.
It was added in Emoji 5.0 (2017) and the underlying characters entered Unicode in version 10.0 (2017).
How it is encoded
🧞 is a single code point, U+1F9DE.
It is RGI (recommended for general interchange), so every major platform ships artwork for it.
Worth knowing
- 🧞 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🧞 look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🧞
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “genie”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “genie”.
Chat apps
:genie:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🧞Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🧞
HTML hex
🧞
CSS content
content: "\1F9DE";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%A7%9E
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.