People & Body · Emoji 5.0
🧟♀️Woman Zombie Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is referencing a zombie – usually in a funny or slightly unsettling way. It’s often used to add a bit of drama or a spooky vibe to a conversation.
The 🧟♀️ emoji represents a woman who is a zombie.
- Unicode
- U+1F9DF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :female_
zombie: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧟♀️ Woman Zombie emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 9 of them.
People also look for it as zombie emoji, horror emoji.
02 — Platforms
Woman Zombie emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F9DF — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your woman zombie 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
Woman Zombie emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :female_zombie:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F9DF.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧟♀️ Woman Zombie emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F9DF when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Woman Zombie emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 5. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Woman Zombie emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around woman zombie 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
Who sent the woman zombie and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What 🧟♀️ means in other countries
Hollywood turned this into horror-comedy, but the concept traces back to Haitian Vodou belief, which treats it far more seriously.
Zombie refers to a real spiritual concept involving loss of free will, not a horror monster.
Default 'undead apocalypse' reference in movies, games, and memes.
Used loosely for someone exhausted or moving sluggishly.
Before you send it: Fine for horror-meme use — just don't treat the term as pure fiction around Haitian Vodou practitioners.
09 — 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.
11 — Difference
🧟♀️ vs 🧚♀️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Woman Zombie
Code: U+1F9DF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F · added 2017
Shortcode: :female_zombie:
Generally, it just means someone is referencing a zombie – usually in a funny or slightly unsettling way.
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.”
12 — History
Where the 🧟♀️ Woman Zombie emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F9DF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F 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.
Woman Zombie was approved as U+1F9DF U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F 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. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ