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Zombie Emoji 🧟

What 🧟 means

Droopy, almost-dead eyes and pale, wrinkly skin mark this gender-neutral, undead character, whose short hair and exposed bone complete the look. This character is shown dressed in rags.

The 🧟 Zombie emoji refers to the famous horror fictional character or a zombie. Besides being a chartbuster by the Cranberries, it also signifies dread, fright, terror, horror, evil, and a state of being undead.

It is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms.

How and when to use it

Zombies are a great part of Halloween. So use 🧟 either in your Halloween countdown posts or tweets or even while posting pictures from a Halloween party.
If you're beginning to feel dead and aggressive in life, and you're ranting about it to your buddies, then use 🧟 in that context.
You can also use 🧟 while responding to a social media post that made your stomach turn. Basically a post that felt like death.
If you're a fan of horror and zombies, you can use 🧟 in your social media profile name.
Use 🧟 in zombie memes. It can star The Walking Dead or such related shows or movies.
Bring in the 🧟 emoji in the context of horror movies, books, series, etc. So if you're telling your friend about a horror movie that you watched or you're posting about a horror book that you finished reading, use this emoji.

Other Names

🧟 Gender-Neutral Zombie
🧟 The Undead
🧟 The Walking Dead
🧟 Ghost
🧟 Demon
🧟 Apparition
🧟 Undead Corpse
🧟 Horror Character
🧟 Devil
🧟 Evil Creature
🧟 Halloween Costume

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-fantasy
Codepoints: U+1F9DF
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :zombie:
Keywords: apocalypse, dead, halloween, horror, scary, undead, walking, zombie

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.