Mage

What 🧙 means

A robed figure with a long beard and a staff, standing for wizards, magic and wisdom. In chat it often praises someone who seems to do the impossible.

Gamers and tabletop players use it for spellcasters and RPG classes. Friends call a skilled helper a wizard: a coder, a hairdresser, an accountant. Pair with ✨ or 🔮 when something works like magic.

Facts

Mage 🧙 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 :mage:. People also look for it with words like “fantasy”, “magic”, “play”, or “sorcerer”.

Timeline

1. 2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)
2. 2017Arrived with five skin tones (Emoji 5.0)
3. 20172 new emoji built from it (Emoji 5.0)🧙‍♂️🧙‍♀️

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

people & body · Emoji 5.0