People & Body · Emoji 5.0
🧟♂️Man Zombie Emoji
Generally, it just means “zombie” – like the undead creature. People use it to add a bit of fun or horror to a conversation.
The 🧟♂️ emoji is a zombie man.
- Unicode
- U+1F9DF U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :male_
zombie: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🧟♂️ Man Zombie emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
02 — Platforms
Man Zombie emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F9DF. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 5.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Man Zombie emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :male_zombie:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F9DF.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🧟♂️ Man Zombie emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Man Zombie emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man zombie as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Man Zombie emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man 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 man zombie and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Around the world
What 🧟♂️ means in other countries
Pop culture flattened this into a horror trope, but it started as a specific Haitian Vodou concept, not a generic monster.
Generic 'undead apocalypse' visual shorthand, no folklore intended.
Original meaning involves spiritual bondage, treated seriously in its home culture.
Used for someone dragging through the day half-asleep.
Before you send it: Great for horror-meme banter; avoid using it as a punchline about the actual belief system.
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: Man Zombie
Code: U+1F9DF U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2017
Shortcode: :male_zombie:
Generally, it just means “zombie” – like the undead creature.
Unicode name: Man Elf
Code: U+1F9DD U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2017
Shortcode: :male_elf:
Generally, it just means “elf man.”
12 — History
Where the 🧟♂️ Man Zombie emoji came from
It arrived with the 5.0 release of the standard, which dates the man zombie to 2017.
Same character every time — U+1F9DF U+200D U+2642 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.
Man Zombie was approved as U+1F9DF U+200D U+2642 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