The vampire: medium-dark skin tone emoji is your go-to for spooky season flair, late-night gremlin hours, and playful "I’m thriving in the dark" energy. People drop it when they’re pulling all-nighters, binging goth playlists, or joking about being allergic to sunlight and responsibilities. It also pops up for thirst (the dramatic kind), teasing someone’s “energy vampire” tendencies, or serving Dracula-core aesthetics with a wink. Meme-wise, think Twilight nostalgia, What We Do in the Shadows quotes, and that one friend who brings garlic bread to the party like they’re testing you.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a head-and-shoulders portrait facing forward, with sleek dark hair, sharp fangs peeking from a sly smile, and a high-collared cape that reads classic Dracula—usually dark with a deep red lining. The medium-dark skin tone modifier gives it inclusive, modern representation while keeping the character unmistakably undead-chic. In texts, it swings from flirty ("bite me 😈🧛🏾") to sarcastic ("can’t—sun’s out, I hiss now") to dramatic ("fangs out, deadlines near"). You’ll see it used to soft-launch Halloween plans, signal nocturnal productivity, or caption a blackout-curtain selfie. Bonus association: SPF 100 jokes, mirror gags, and “no garlic, please” punchlines.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2132 of 2393 |
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| 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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| Emoji Code Version | iOS 18 - Current |
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| 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) | 1f9db, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9DB, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129499, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x9B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 9B, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 233, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDDB, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edddb, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56795, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9DB 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9DB, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129499, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9DB\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\x9b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDDB\uD83C\uDFFE" |
