The ninja: light skin tone emoji slips into your chats like a whisper in a quiet hallway—here for stealth missions, secret plans, and the art of leaving no crumbs (except the actual cookie you just stole). It’s perfect for “lurking but listening,” a low-key flex when you solved something silently, or a playful sign-off after dropping a spicy take and vanishing. People deploy it for sneaky links, covert DMs, and those dramatic, smoke-bomb exits from group chats. It also pairs hilariously with fail stories—ironically captioning the least subtle move ever.
On Apple/iOS, this ninja is a head-and-shoulders figure in a matte-black hood and face mask, with only focused, almond-shaped eyes visible. A short, silver blade angles across the chest, catching a tiny gleam; the palette is charcoal-on-black with cool steel accents and soft gradients. In this light skin tone variant, the small bits of visible skin—around the eyes and on the hand gripping the weapon—appear light, giving the stealthy look a gentle contrast. The vibe is calm, precise, and very “don’t make a sound.”
Culturally, it nods to the historic shinobi of Japan—stealth, espionage, and quiet efficiency—while online it’s peak meme energy: “ninja edit” for silently fixing a typo, “shadow drop” for surprise announcements, and “ninja vanish” when you Irish-exit a party thread. Naruto references, shadow-clone jokes, and late-night fridge raids all fit; so does flirt mode when you slide in like, shh, you saw nothing.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2754 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture | Image not available |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
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| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🥷🏻 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🥷🏻 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🥷 🏻 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🥷 🏻 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f977, 1f3fb |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F977, U+1F3FB |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129399, 127995 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA5 0xB7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBB |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A5 B7, F0 9F 8F BB |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 245 267, 360 237 217 273 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD77, 0xD83C 0xDFFB |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd77, d83cdffb |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56695, 55356 57339 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F977 0x0001F3FB |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F977, 01F3FB |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129399, 127995 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F977\U0001F3FB" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa5\xb7\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbb" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD77\uD83C\uDFFB" |
