Fairy: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A mythical humanoid figure with translucent wings and a dark skin tone, depicted with an expressive, pointed-ear face. This character draws directly from folklore traditions describing small, magical beings capable of flight.

Usage Context

Used to describe magic, whimsical situations, or to playfully denote someone acting as a 'fairy godmother' by helping others. It is frequently sent alongside sparkles or nature-themed icons like ✨ or 🍃 to reinforce a sense of enchantment.

History

While the base fairy emoji was added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017, the skin tone modifier support was implemented simultaneously to allow users to better represent diverse cultural versions of sprite and forest-spirit mythology found in global literature.

Details

Glyph

🧚🏿

Unicode

U+1F9DA U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9da_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDDA;&#xD83C;&#xDFFF;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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