zombie
People
What it means when sent
A zombie. Most often it means running on no sleep, and it is sent for that image far more than for horror.
- Code point
- U+1F9DF
- 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 โ 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 (๐, ๐ ).
- At work, an emoji standing in for a sentence invites misreading. In some countries a bare ๐ reads as a brush-off.
- Putting emojis in a page title does not help search ranking โ 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 ๐ง mean?
A zombie. Most often it means running on no sleep, and it is sent for that image far more than for horror.
Q. What is its official name?
Unicode calls it zombie, code point U+1F9DF. It sits under People.
Q. Does it survive copy and paste?
On most devices, yes โ though every vendor draws it slightly differently.