The ninja: medium-dark skin tone emoji brings peak stealth energy to your texts—perfect for slipping into group chats, plotting a snack heist, or announcing a plan with zero fanfare. On Apple/iOS, it’s a sleek, black-hooded headshot with a matte mask covering the face, only the eyes visible—arched brows, calm but deadly stare—and a katana hilt and blade peeking over the shoulder at a slight angle, all shaded with that glossy Apple gradient. The skin-tone tweak shows up around the eyes (and any tiny exposed skin), giving the masked figure a medium-dark tone that feels personal even when half the face is hidden. Drop it when you’re going “low-key,” switching to stealth mode, or doing the classic “ninja vanish” after a spicy take.
Culturally, it screams shinobi and anime fandom (yes, Naruto run memes included), but it also lands in modern meme territory—shadow drops, silent unfollows, and that “I was never here” energy. People use it playfully sarcastic too: post a neon outfit and caption it with this emoji like, “Blending in.” It shows up in flirty DMs as the “sneaky link” mascot, in gamer chats as a “press X to stealth” nod, and in day-to-day life for late-night fridge raids and covert office snack ops. Whether you’re avoiding spoilers, planning a surprise, or just lurking with style, this masked icon says: quiet, clever, and a little dramatic—poof.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2332 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| 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, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F977, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129399, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA5 0xB7, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A5 B7, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 245 267, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD77, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd77, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56695, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F977 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F977, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129399, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F977\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa5\xb7\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD77\uD83C\uDFFE" |
