Vampire: medium-light skin tone Emoji

People

A cartoon depiction of a vampire with a medium-light skin tone, showcasing sharp fangs, a high-collared cape, and a menacing expression. It captures the classic tropes of gothic horror and blood-sucking creatures of the night.

Usage Context

Widely used during the Halloween season or when discussing horror movies, folklore, and gothic literature. People often pair this with the 🩸 emoji to imply hunger or the 🦇 emoji to reference the vampire's ability to shapeshift.

History

The base vampire emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0. It arrived during a period when the emoji library was rapidly expanding to include more diverse representations of mythical creatures and monsters from global folklore.

Details

Glyph

🧛🏼

Unicode

U+1F9DB U+1F3FC

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9db_1f3fc:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDDB;&#xD83C;&#xDFFC;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category People

Subcategory person-fantasy

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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