People & Body · Emoji 5.0
🧞Genie Emoji
Generally, when someone sends you the genie emoji, they’re just expressing a feeling of magic or wishing something would happen. It’s often used lightheartedly, like a little bit of playful excitement.
The genie emoji (🧞 ) represents a magical being, often associated with granting wishes.
- Unicode
- U+1F9DE
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :genie:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧞 Genie emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Genie emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9DE. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Genie emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :genie:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9DE.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧞 Genie emoji
No picker to hand? The genie can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Genie emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the genie 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
06 — Combinations
Genie emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around genie 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.
07 — In conversation
What 🧞 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
08 — Around the world
What 🧞 means in other countries
The lamp-and-wishes image is a Western invention layered onto jinn, a concept treated as genuinely real in Islamic belief.
Jinn are an accepted part of the unseen world, described in religious texts.
The blue, wish-granting genie is the default global image.
Shorthand for someone granting a favor or making a wish come true.
Before you send it: Works as a fun 'wish' reference broadly; don't reduce it to pure fiction in religious discussion.
09 — Apps
What 🧞 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F9DE, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
🧞 vs 🧞♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Genie
Code: U+1F9DE · added 2017
Shortcode: :genie:
Generally, when someone sends you the genie emoji, they’re just expressing a feeling of magic or wishing something would happen.
Unicode name: Woman Genie
Code: U+1F9DE U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2017
Shortcode: :female_genie:
Generally, when someone sends you the 🧞♀️ emoji in a text, they’re just adding a bit of fun and whimsy to the conversation.
12 — History
Where the 🧞 Genie emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 5.0, the genie has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 9.
Same character every time — U+1F9DE 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.
Genie was approved as U+1F9DE 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.
13 — FAQ