Ghost Emoji
What does the Ghost emoji mean?
A playful cartoon ghost with outstretched arms, its tongue sticking out and friendly eyes, on some platforms one eye even bulges. It’s like it’s cheerfully shouting “Boo!”: a little spooky but mostly cute. This emoji is a go-to for trick-or-treat chats and Halloween.
Playful ghost emoji sporting a friendly face and a tongue sticking out. It's white with a thin, wispy tail—the classic cartoon ghost everyone recognizes.
This emoji is especially popular on Halloween, when people send each other greetings featuring all sorts of expressions and ghosts. It's often used as a quick stand-in for the word "creepy".
Also Known As
- 👻 Disappear
- 👻 Ghoul
- 👻 Halloween
Apple Name
- 👻 Ghost
Unicode Name
- 👻 Ghost
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Ghost emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
👻 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F47B
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Emojipedia, Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%91%BB |
| Punycode | xn--9q8h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 91 BB |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDC7B |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f47b |
| CSS | \01F47B |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F47B} |
| Perl | \x{1F47B} |
| HTML hex | 👻 |
| HTML dec | 👻 |
Tags: creature, face, fairy tale, fantasy, ghost, monster, boo, excited, fairy, fairytale, halloween, haunting, scary
Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Monsters & creatures