Man vampire: medium-dark skin tone Emoji

People

A male-presenting figure with medium-dark skin, sporting a high-collared cape and visible fangs. The design draws directly from classic Gothic horror tropes of the aristocratic undead.

Usage Context

Widely used to discuss horror movies, Halloween festivities, or late-night antics. It is frequently sent alongside emojis like 🧛 or 🩸 to lean into spooky themes or to describe someone who prefers living nocturnal hours.

History

Vampire emojis were added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of the expansion of supernatural character options. The ability to modify skin tones for this emoji arrived later, reflecting a push to make digital representation more inclusive across all character categories.

Details

Glyph

🧛🏾‍♂

Unicode

U+1F9DB U+1F3FE U+200D U+2642

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9db_1f3fe_200d_2642:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDDB;&#xD83C;&#xDFFE;‍♂

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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