Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
👽Alien Emoji
Generally, the 👽 emoji just means “alien.” It's often used to represent the concept of life beyond Earth or something strange and unfamiliar.
The 👽 emoji represents an alien or extraterrestrial being.
- Unicode
- U+1F47D
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :alien:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 👽 Alien emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 10.
People also look for it as alien monster emoji, ufo emoji.
02 — Platforms
Alien emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the alien as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Alien emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :alien:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F47D.
04 — How to type
How to type the 👽 Alien emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F47D when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Alien emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
JoyPixels
06 — Combinations
Alien emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around alien for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👽, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 👽 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the alien and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 👽 means in other countries
Understood everywhere as a sci-fi extraterrestrial; no country reads it differently, only the tone shifts around it.
Reaction to something bizarre, random, or genuinely hard to believe just happened
Literal reference to extraterrestrial life, sightings, and abduction lore
Can imply someone’s acting strange, out of place, or a little out there
Before you send it: Use it freely for “that’s weird” reactions; it doesn’t carry any hidden meaning worth watching for.
10 — Apps
What 👽 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
12 — Difference
👽 vs 👾 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Alien
Code: U+1F47D · added 2010
Shortcode: :alien:
Generally, the 👽 emoji just means “alien.”
Unicode name: Alien Monster
Code: U+1F47E · added 2010
Shortcode: :space_invader:
Basically, it means something is strange, weird, or a bit unsettling.
13 — History
Where the 👽 Alien emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F47D never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👽 existed there as
KDDI au E50E, SoftBank E10C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Alien was approved as U+1F47D and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👽 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ