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🧞Genie Emoji
🧞 is the genie emoji, U+1F9DE, one of 33 in the Fantasy set. It arrived with Emoji 5.0 (2017) and is commonly used for djinn, fantasy and jinn.
What 🧞 genie means
Santa, angels, and the 2017 batch of fantasy figures - 🧙, 🧚, 🧛, 🧜, 🧝, 🧞, 🧟 - which Unicode added as a set with man, woman and neutral variants. They get used for Halloween and tabletop games, but also metaphorically: 🧚 for something whimsical, 🧟 for how you feel before coffee, 🦸 for anyone who did you a favor.
Unicode tags this one djinn, fantasy and jinn and files it under People & Body → Fantasy.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F9DE | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🧞 | |
| HTML decimal | 🧞 | |
| CSS | \1F9DE | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9DE} | |
| Python | \U0001F9DE | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDDDE | |
| Rust | \u{1f9de} | |
| Swift | \u{1F9DE} | |
| PHP | \u{1F9DE} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A7%9E | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A7 9E | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DDDE | |
| Base64 | 8J+nng== | |
| Decimal | 129502 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 5.0 (2017) | |
Keywords
- djinn
- fantasy
- jinn
- lamp
- myth
- rub
- wishes
How to type 🧞
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “genie”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “djinn”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f9deand 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 🧞 genie emoji mean?+
🧞 is the genie emoji, tagged djinn, fantasy and jinn. Santa, angels, and the 2017 batch of fantasy figures - 🧙, 🧚, 🧛, 🧜, 🧝, 🧞, 🧟 - which Unicode added as a set with man, woman and neutral variants. They get used for Halloween and tabletop games, but also metaphorically: 🧚 for something whimsical, 🧟 for how you feel before coffee, 🦸 for anyone who did you a favor.
What is the Unicode code for 🧞?+
genie is U+1F9DE. In HTML that is 🧞, in CSS \1F9DE, and in JavaScript \u{1F9DE}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🧞 emoji added?+
genie got its emoji presentation in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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 Fantasy in People & Body.
Added in Emoji 5.0 (2017)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🧞 genie.