Alien Emoji

Smileys

A classic grey-skinned humanoid head with large, pitch-black oval eyes, a tiny slit for a nose, and no visible ears or hair. It perfectly captures the popular culture image of a 'little grey' extraterrestrial visitor.

Usage Context

Widely used to signal that something is strange, bizarre, or 'out of this world.' It is frequently used in memes to suggest someone is acting like an outsider or to comment on surreal situations that defy logical explanation. Users often pair it with the 🛸 emoji to reference UFO sightings or science fiction tropes.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, this icon was heavily inspired by the global obsession with sci-fi media in the late 20th century. Its design draws directly from decades of depictions in film and television that cemented the 'grey alien' as the standard shorthand for life beyond Earth.

Details

Glyph

👽

Unicode

U+1F47D

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f47d:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDC7D;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-costume

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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

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