Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
👾Alien Monster Emoji
Basically, it means something is strange, weird, or a bit unsettling. It’s used to show you’re feeling a little creeped out or that something is just plain odd.
The 👾 emoji is an alien monster.
- Unicode
- U+1F47E
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :space_
invader: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 👾 Alien Monster emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 14.
People also look for it as games emoji.
02 — Platforms
Alien Monster emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F47E — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your alien monster looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Alien Monster emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :space_invader:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the alien monster, code point U+1F47E.
04 — How to type
How to type the 👾 Alien Monster emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F47E when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Alien Monster emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the alien monster as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Alien Monster emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around alien monster 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Around the world
What 👾 means in other countries
This one’s a gaming icon first — it’s the Space Invaders sprite, so gamers read it more literally than everyone else.
Nostalgic nod to retro arcade games, pixel art, and 1980s gaming culture
Just another “weird little creature” reaction emoji with no gaming reference implied
May not register the arcade reference at all, reads as a plain cute monster face
Before you send it: Great in gaming threads for the retro nod; outside that, it just reads as a generic cute monster.
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 Monster
Code: U+1F47E · added 2010
Shortcode: :space_invader:
Basically, it means something is strange, weird, or a bit unsettling.
Unicode name: Alien
Code: U+1F47D · added 2010
Shortcode: :alien:
Generally, the 👽 emoji just means “alien.”
13 — History
Where the 👾 Alien Monster 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+1F47E 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 E4EC, SoftBank E12B.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Alien Monster was approved as U+1F47E 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