Vampire: dark skin tone Emoji

People

A dark-skinned face featuring a high collar, slicked-back hair, and sharp, prominent fangs protruding from the upper lip. The expression is stern and predatory, capturing the classic image of a nocturnal creature of legend.

Usage Context

Used to discuss vampire-themed pop culture, Gothic literature, or horror films. People also deploy it during the month of October or in online roleplay scenarios. It frequently appears alongside the 🩸 or 🦇 emojis to lean into a spooky theme.

History

The base vampire character was added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0. The skin tone variants were introduced simultaneously to ensure better representation in digital communication, reflecting the industry-wide push to allow users to customize human-like figures to better match their own appearance.

Details

Glyph

🧛🏿

Unicode

U+1F9DB U+1F3FF

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f9db_1f3ff:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDDDB;&#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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