Mage: medium skin tone Emoji

People

A figure wearing a pointed wide-brimmed hat and flowing robes, holding a wooden staff topped with a glowing crystal. This version displays a medium skin tone, representing a spellcaster or magic-user.

Usage Context

Used to talk about fantasy literature, tabletop role-playing games like Dungeons & Dragons, or to describe someone acting with mysterious or expert-level skills. It is frequently sent alongside the ✨ sparkles or 🔮 crystal ball emoji to signal a magical theme.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0. It was introduced to broaden the range of fantasy-themed characters, following a period where users heavily requested more diverse mythical figures to represent gaming and pop-culture subcultures.

Details

Glyph

🧙🏽

Unicode

U+1F9D9 U+1F3FD

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9d9_1f3fd:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDD9;&#xD83C;&#xDFFD;

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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