Pointed hat, staff in hand, robes trailing — the mage emoji is the wizard of the emoji world. It's used for fantasy and gaming content, and loosely for anyone who pulls off something so impressive it might as well be actual magic.
What 🧙 means
A wizard, drawn with no particular gender. This emoji is rather an aged character that adorns grey hair, a witch hat, a pair of glasses, a wizard robe, and a precious-stone studded wand.
The 🧙 Mage emoji signifies magic, sorcery, wizardry, fantasy, surreality, and an element of the supernatural. Although gender-neutral, this emoji is mostly depicted with a male face.
It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.
How and when to use it
- If you're dressing up for Halloween as a wizard or you're dressing up your little one as the cutest sorcerer in the whole wide world, use 🧙 in the captions while posting pictures of either, or both.
- If you're a Potterhead, use 🧙 in your social media name. You can also use it if you just love magic.
- You can also use 🧙 in the caption while posting about fantasy movies, books, documentaries, etc, that are about magic and Hogwarts, of course.
- If you're on the way to a magic show, and you're updating your social media story or tweet about it, use 🧙 in the caption or within the story.
- 🧙 evokes powers of prediction among other qualities. So if you're having a 'hunch' about something and your buddies are either bugged or suspicious about it, use this emoji while telling them in advance that you're predicting a particular scenario instead of telling them after, that you 'knew it all along'.
- If you've been smitten by someone or something (like a rock album), use 🧙 while telling your bestie that you're under a spell.
Other Names
- 🧙 Wizard
- 🧙 Sorcerer
- 🧙 Sorceress
- 🧙 Magician
- 🧙 Witch
- 🧙 Spell Caster
- 🧙 Enchanter
- 🧙 Enchantress
- 🧙 Wizardess
- 🧙 Warlock
The lowdown
- Category
- People & Body › person-fantasy
- Codepoints
U+1F9D9- Emoji version
- Emoji 5.0
- Shortcodes
:mage:- Keywords
- fantasy, mage, magic, play, sorcerer, sorceress, sorcery, spell, summon, witch, wizard
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Skin tone variations
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🧙 Mage or 🧑🦼 Person in Motorized Wheelchair?
Runs with a crowd
🧙 keeps company in skull emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.