People & Body · Emoji 5.0
🧚Fairy Emoji
Generally, it means “fairy” or something magical and fantastical. People use it to show they’re being playful or want to add a bit of charm to what they’re saying.
The 🧚 emoji represents a fairy.
- Unicode
- U+1F9DA
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :fairy:
- Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧚 Fairy emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
02 — Platforms
Fairy emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9DA — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your fairy 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 — Skin tones
Fairy emoji skin tones
🧚 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Fairy emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :fairy:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the fairy, code point U+1F9DA.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🧚 Fairy emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Fairy emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the fairy 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
Microsoft
WhatsApp
07 — Combinations
Fairy emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around fairy 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 for every pair Google has drawn, 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 fairy and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 🧚 means in other countries
Mostly an innocent fantasy image today, carrying a faint echo of older slang once used to mock gay men.
Generic magical-creature tag, the overwhelming default reading.
Historically used as a slur, now largely fallen out of use.
Sometimes used for 'fairy light,' whimsical or ethereal vibes.
Before you send it: Send it without hesitation in fandom or whimsical contexts — it's not read as loaded today.
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: Fairy
Code: U+1F9DA · added 2017
Shortcode: :fairy:
Generally, it means “fairy” or something magical and fantastical.
Unicode name: Woman Fairy
Code: U+1F9DA U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2017
Shortcode: :female_fairy:
Generally, the 🧚♀️ emoji means “magical” or “fairy-like.”
13 — History
Where the 🧚 Fairy emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 5.0, the fairy has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 9.
Same character every time — U+1F9DA 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.
Fairy was approved as U+1F9DA 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.
14 — FAQ