U+1F977 "🥷" Ninja Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🥷
U+1F977 "🥷" Ninja is a pictographic symbol included in the Unicode standard under the Emoji category, depicting a stealthy martial artist typically shown in a dark outfit with a headband and face covering. Officially added in 2020 as part of Emoji 13.0, it represents a ninja character from Japanese history and popular culture, often used in digital communication to convey stealth, secrecy, skill, or a playful sense of mystery. While its design varies slightly across different platforms, it consistently embodies the image of a shadowy warrior adept in espionage and combat.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F977 |
| Version Added | 13.0 |
| Name | Ninja |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🥷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🥷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA5 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD77 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F977 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd77 |