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👽️Alien Emoji
Tagged creature, extraterrestrial and face, 👽️ alien sits in Unicode's Costumed & Creatures group inside Smileys & Emotion. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F47D U+FE0F.
What 👽️ alien means
Masks, monsters and things that are not faces at all. Used for self-deprecation (🤡 for admitting you were the fool), Halloween, and gaming. 👾 is formally named alien monster but is drawn on most platforms as an arcade sprite, and 💩 reached Unicode from the Japanese carrier sets that seeded the original emoji list.
Unicode tags this one creature, extraterrestrial and face and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Costumed & Creatures.
Copy variants
alien carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
How 👽️ is built
This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.
- 👽U+1F47Dalien
- ·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F47D U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👽️ | |
| HTML decimal | 👽️ | |
| CSS | \1F47D\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F47D}\u{FE0F} | |
| Python | \U0001F47D\U0000FE0F | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC7D\uFE0F | |
| Rust | \u{1f47d}\u{fe0f} | |
| Swift | \u{1F47D}\u{FE0F} | |
| PHP | \u{1F47D}\u{FE0F} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%BD%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 BD EF B8 8F | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC7D FE0F | |
| Base64 | 8J+Rve+4jw== | |
| Decimal | 128125 65039 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 👽️
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “alien”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “creature”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f47dand Enter. - HTML — paste
👽️.
How 👽️ renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 👽️Apple
- 👽️Segoe
- 👽️Noto
- 👽️System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 👽️ alien emoji mean?+
👽️ is the alien emoji, tagged creature, extraterrestrial and face. Masks, monsters and things that are not faces at all. Used for self-deprecation (🤡 for admitting you were the fool), Halloween, and gaming. 👾 is formally named alien monster but is drawn on most platforms as an arcade sprite, and 💩 reached Unicode from the Japanese carrier sets that seeded the original emoji list.
What is the Unicode code for 👽️?+
alien is U+1F47D U+FE0F. In HTML that is 👽️, in CSS \1F47D\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F47D}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👽️ emoji added?+
alien got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Costumed & Creatures in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 👽️ alien.