🧛Vampire Emoji
Generally, it just means "vampire. " People use it to represent the vampire character or to express a liking for vampire-related things.
The 🧛 emoji represents a vampire.
- Unicode
- U+1F9DB
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :vampire:
- Skin tones
- Yes
What does the 🧛 Vampire emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 8.
Vampire emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9DB. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Vampire emoji skin tones
🧛 supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
Vampire emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :vampire:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9DB.
How to type the 🧛 Vampire emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Vampire 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.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Vampire emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around vampire 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 🧛 means in other countries
Reads as gothic or horror-movie shorthand everywhere, with the folklore roots in Eastern Europe now mostly historical trivia.
Straightforward genre reference, from Dracula to modern TV shows.
Can describe someone draining energy from others — an 'emotional vampire.'
Common way to tease someone who's nocturnal by habit.
Before you send it: No real landmines here — it's safe for playful or spooky contexts across cultures.
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.
🧛 vs 🧛♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Vampire
Code: U+1F9DB · added 2017
Shortcode: :vampire:
Generally, it just means "vampire.
Unicode name: Woman Vampire
Code: U+1F9DB U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2017
Shortcode: :female_vampire:
Generally, it just means a woman who is a vampire.
Where the 🧛 Vampire emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the vampire to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F9DB 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.
Vampire was approved as U+1F9DB 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.