Sneaky, stylish, and a little bit dramatic—the ninja: medium skin tone emoji is your go-to for stealth vibes, secret plans, or slipping out of a group chat like a shadow at midnight. People drop it to hint at a hush-hush project, a surprise pull-up, or that “nobody saw me eat the last slice” energy. It’s also meme-ready for ironic fails—like when you “move in silence” but your keys jingle like a marching band. Flirty folks use it for a playful “sneaky link,” and it doubles as the perfect reaction to ghosting, soft-launching, or lurking in the comments unseen.
On Apple/iOS, this ninja wears a matte-black hood and mask with only the eyes visible, and the medium skin tone peeks through around the eye opening—warm and noticeable against the charcoal fabric. The expression is focused and slightly narrowed, with a sword hilt peeking over one shoulder for that classic shinobi aesthetic. It’s a clean, glossy Apple-style bust view: dark fabrics, subtle highlights, and the unmistakable “I was never here” posture. Culturally, it nods to Japan’s legendary shinobi and all our pop-culture obsessions—from stealth video games to ninja anime—making it perfect for everything from “vanish like a pro” jokes to “mission accomplished, quietly.”
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2752 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 |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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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, 1f3fd |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F977, U+1F3FD |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129399, 127997 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA5 0xB7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBD |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A5 B7, F0 9F 8F BD |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 245 267, 360 237 217 275 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD77, 0xD83C 0xDFFD |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd77, d83cdffd |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56695, 55356 57341 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F977 0x0001F3FD |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F977, 01F3FD |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129399, 127997 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F977\U0001F3FD" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa5\xb7\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbd" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD77\uD83C\uDFFD" |