| Emoji | 👻 |
| Name | ghost |
| Unicode Codepoint | U+1F47B |
| Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Subcategory | Face Costume |
| Emoji Version | 0.6 |
| Tags | boo, creature, excited, face, fairy, fairytale, fantasy, halloween, haunting, monster, scary, silly, tale |
| Decimal Value | 128123 |
| Hex Value | 0x1F47B |
| HTML Code (Dec / Hex) | 👻 / 👻 |
The ghost emoji is used to add emotional tone or reaction to a message — face and emotion emoji like this are consistently among the most-used emoji worldwide because they let a short message carry the nuance of tone of voice or facial expression that plain text lacks.
Category context: The Smileys & Emotion category covers facial expressions and emotional reactions — the most frequently used emoji group in everyday messaging, since a single face can convey tone that plain text often misses.
Cataloged under Face Costume within the Smileys & Emotion category, ghost is the 63rd of 171 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 0.6 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F47B.
💡 Good to know: This emoji renders differently across platforms (Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft each have their own art style) — the shape, color, and exact expression can vary noticeably between devices.
Click the 👻 button at the top of this page to copy it, then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V on Windows or Command+V on Mac.
Open your phone keyboard's emoji panel and search for "ghost", or copy 👻 from this page and paste it into any app.
The ghost emoji is Unicode U+1F47B.
The ghost emoji is used to add emotional tone or reaction to a message — face and emotion emoji like this are consistently among the most-used emoji worldwide because they let a short message carry the nuance of tone of voice or facial expression that plain text lacks.