Elf
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- Shortcode
:elf:- Unicode
U+1F9DD- HTML
🧝- CSS
\1F9DD- JavaScript
"\u{1F9DD}"- URL
%F0%9F%A7%9D
What ๐ง means
A figure with long pointed ears, standing for the elves of folklore and fantasy: wise, magical forest folk.
Fantasy readers, gamers and tabletop players use it for elf characters. Around Christmas, people also use it for Santa's helpers and Elf on the Shelf, with ๐ and ๐ . It can tease someone with pointy ears, too.
Facts
Elf ๐ง is an emoji in the people and body category, under person fantasy. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. It comes in five skin tones, from light to dark. 2 other emoji use it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :elf:. People also look for it with words like โelvesโ, โenchantmentโ, โfantasyโ, or โfolkloreโ.
Timeline
- 2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)
- 2017Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 5.0)
- 20172 new emoji built from it (Emoji 5.0)๐งโโ๏ธ๐งโโ๏ธ
Design history
Google (Noto)
2019
2020
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2017
2019
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.