The alien emoji is your friendly neighborhood extraterrestrial—perfect for saying “I feel weird,” “I’m not from this planet,” or “this news is out of this world.” It pops up in DMs as a quirky compliment (“you’re otherworldly”), in memes about UAP threads and conspiracy TikTok, and whenever someone’s behavior is so bizarre it needs intergalactic context. It’s also big in self-deprecating humor: 3 a.m. texts about being awake, feeling socially alienated, or having a brain that’s gone full cosmic goo. Expect it during sci-fi binges, spacey aesthetics, and throwbacks to Area 51 raid jokes when the timeline goes full X-Files.
On Apple/iOS, the alien is a front-facing, gray-green metallic head with a glossy gradient—huge black almond eyes and a tiny curved smile that reads “I come in peace.” The dome is bulbous, smooth, and shiny, with soft highlights that give it a 3D, bubble-toy look—no antenna, no body, just that iconic face. It signals friendly weirdness more than horror, unlike the purple pixelated 👾 (that’s the arcade invader) or the 🛸 flying saucer if you want the actual ship. Cultural touchstones? Think E.T., Roswell lore, and the “I Want to Believe” poster energy—perfect for joking that your crush, your coffee, or Beyoncé is not strictly human.
Definition
Perhaps you said something the other person didn't quite understand? [never seen this used legitimately ;)]
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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.
This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.
Emoji General Information
Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)
334 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
Google Android Picture
Google Hangouts Picture
Twitter.com Picture
LG Emoji Picture
Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name
:alien:
Keywords
Alien, UFO
Previous Names:
Extraterrestrial Alien
Unicode Category Information
Unicode Category
Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range
1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory
Fairy Tale Symbols
Proposed Unicode Information & Notes
Unicode Category
Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory
Fairy Tale Symbols
Names & Annotations
EXTRATERRESTRIAL ALIEN Temporary Notes: Alien (big eyed type), or UFO
Symbol Information
U+1F47D proposed
Proposal Identifier
e-1B0
Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes
DoCoMo
[UFO]
KDDI
#302 UFO U+E50E SJIS-F6E7 JIS-7669
Softbank
#300 #old102 宇宙人 U+E10C SJIS-F74C
Emoji Character Encoding Data
Emoji Code Version
iOS 4 Code
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
Decimal HTML Entity

Hexadecimal HTML Entity

Hex Code Point(s)
e10c
Formal Unicode Notation
U+E10C
Decimal Code Point(s)
57612
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xEE 0x84 0x8C
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
EE 84 8C
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
356 204 214
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xE10C
UTF-16 Hex
e10c
UTF-16 Dec
57612
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0000E10C
UTF-32 Hex
E10C
UTF-32 Dec
57612
Python Src
u"\uE10C"
PHP Src
"\xee\x84\x8c"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uE10C"
Emoji Code Version
iOS 5 - Current
UTF-8 Unicode Character(s)
👽
UTF-8 Character Count
1
Character(s) In Input
AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS)
👽
Decimal HTML Entity
👽
Hexadecimal HTML Entity
👽
Hex Code Point(s)
1f47d
Formal Unicode Notation
U+1F47D
Decimal Code Point(s)
128125
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)
0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xBD
UTF-8 Hex Bytes
F0 9F 91 BD
UTF-8 Octal Bytes
360 237 221 275
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)
0xD83D 0xDC7D
UTF-16 Hex
d83ddc7d
UTF-16 Dec
55357 56445
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)
0x0001F47D
UTF-32 Hex
01F47D
UTF-32 Dec
128125
Python Src
u"\U0001F47D"
PHP Src
"\xf0\x9f\x91\xbd"
C/C++/Java Src
"\uD83D\uDC7D"
Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)
