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👺Goblin Emoji
Unicode added 👺 goblin in Unicode 6.0 (2010), filed under Smileys & Emotion → Costumed & Creatures. Its codepoint is U+1F47A, and it is tagged angry, creature and face.
What 👺 goblin 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 angry, creature and face 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+1F47A | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 👺 | |
| HTML decimal | 👺 | |
| CSS | \1F47A | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F47A} | |
| Python | \U0001F47A | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDC7A | |
| Rust | \u{1f47a} | |
| Swift | \u{1F47A} | |
| PHP | \u{1F47A} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%91%BA | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 91 BA | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DC7A | |
| Base64 | 8J+Rug== | |
| Decimal | 128122 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
Appears in these collections
How to type 👺
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “goblin”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “angry”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f47aand 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 👺 goblin emoji mean?+
👺 is the goblin emoji, tagged angry, creature 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 👺?+
goblin is U+1F47A. In HTML that is 👺, in CSS \1F47A, and in JavaScript \u{1F47A}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 👺 emoji added?+
goblin 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 👺 goblin.