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👻Ghost Emoji
👻 is the ghost emoji, U+1F47B, one of 8 in the Costumed & Creatures set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for boo, creature and excited.
What 👻 ghost 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 boo, creature and excited and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Costumed & Creatures.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F47B | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👻 | |
| HTML decimal | 👻 | |
| CSS | \1F47B | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F47B} | |
| Python | \U0001F47B | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC7B | |
| Rust | \u{1f47b} | |
| Swift | \u{1F47B} | |
| PHP | \u{1F47B} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%BB | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 BB | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC7B | |
| Base64 | 8J+Ruw== | |
| Decimal | 128123 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 👻
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “ghost”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “boo”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f47band 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 👻 ghost emoji mean?+
👻 is the ghost emoji, tagged boo, creature and excited. 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 👻?+
ghost is U+1F47B. In HTML that is 👻, in CSS \1F47B, and in JavaScript \u{1F47B}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👻 emoji added?+
ghost 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 👻 ghost.