The vampire: dark skin tone emoji is your go-to for nocturnal drama, goth flair, and tongue-in-cheek “I only function after sunset” energy. On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing bust with slick, dark hair, sharp little fangs, and a high, black cape with red lining over a crisp shirt—cartoon-clean and a bit mischievous. The dark skin tone modifier gives the character a deep brown complexion while keeping the signature cape-and-fangs look instantly recognizable. It’s gender-neutral by default, but fully ready to cosplay Dracula, your favorite K-drama bloodsucker, or that one charismatic club kid who appears only at 2 a.m.
People drop this emoji for Halloween invites, late-night grind posts (“vampire hours”), and flirty quips like “I might bite.” It doubles as a meme for “energy vampires” who drain your will to live in meetings—What We Do in the Shadows energy—and as a joke about taxes, rent, or that one group chat friend who only emerges to stir the pot. Expect it next to Twilight hot takes, Castlevania marathons, or “SPF 100 or I’ll combust” summer tweets. It’s dramatic, a little camp, and perfect when you want to say: I’m undead, unbothered, and online.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 2253 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) | 1f9db, 1f3ff |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F9DB, U+1F3FF |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129499, 127999 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA7 0x9B, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBF |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A7 9B, F0 9F 8F BF |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 247 233, 360 237 217 277 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDDDB, 0xD83C 0xDFFF |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edddb, d83cdfff |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56795, 55356 57343 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F9DB 0x0001F3FF |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F9DB, 01F3FF |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129499, 127999 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F9DB\U0001F3FF" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa7\x9b\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbf" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDDDB\uD83C\uDFFF" |