🧙Mage Emoji
Generally, the 🧙 emoji just means “wizard” or “magic. ” People use it to add a bit of fun or a touch of fantasy to their messages.
The 🧙 emoji represents a wizard or mage.
- Unicode
- U+1F9D9
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :mage:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🧙 Mage emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 10 of them.
Mage emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the mage as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Mage emoji skin tones
🧙 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Mage emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :mage:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the mage, code point U+1F9D9.
How to type the 🧙 Mage emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9D9 when there is no key at all.
Mage emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the mage as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Mage emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mage for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
What 🧙 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the mage and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 🧙 means in other countries
Gender-neutral wizard/witch icon, carries the same fantasy-game meaning as its counterpart in almost every context.
the default class icon there, reads exactly as intended without any extra weight
sometimes used for “fixed the impossible bug,” entirely unrelated to actual magic
even lighthearted “witch” framing aimed at a specific person can land badly there
Before you send it: Safe as fantasy shorthand overall; just keep it away from jokes that label a real person as a witch.
What 🧙 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9D9, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
🧙 vs 🧙♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Mage
Code: U+1F9D9 · added 2017
Shortcode: :mage:
Generally, the 🧙 emoji just means “wizard” or “magic.
Unicode name: Woman Mage
Code: U+1F9D9 U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2017
Shortcode: :female_mage:
Generally, it just means “witch” or “magical woman.
Where the 🧙 Mage emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 5.0, the mage has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 9.
Same character every time — U+1F9D9 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.
Mage was approved as U+1F9D9 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.