ninja
People
What it means when sent
A ninja. It is a single code point so it renders as one glyph everywhere, and it also means getting something done unseen.
- Code point
- U+1F977
- Code points
- 1
A single code point. One backspace deletes it.
Role emojis are mostly ZWJ sequences, so on a device without them you see a person and a tool sitting side by side instead.
Using emojis
- Tap the character to copy it and paste it anywhere — it is text, not an image, so its size follows the font around it.
- Sender and receiver on different devices see different drawings. Apple, Google and Samsung each draw their own, and for some emojis that changes the meaning (🙃, 😅).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare 👍 reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking — they are usually stripped from the result.
- Skin-tone variants are not listed here. Only the base form is, because the meaning does not change with them.
Common questions
Q. What does 🥷 mean?
A ninja. It is a single code point so it renders as one glyph everywhere, and it also means getting something done unseen.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it ninja, code point U+1F977. It sits under People.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes — though every vendor draws it slightly differently.