U+1F9B9 "🦹" Supervillain Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🦹
U+1F9B9 "🦹" Supervillain is part of the Emoticons and Emoji block and was added to the Unicode Standard in 2018 as part of Emoji 11.0. This character depicts a stylized human figure often shown wearing a cape and a distinctive mask or hood, evoking the classic visual archetype of a comic book or film supervillain. It is typically used in digital communication to represent malicious intent, cunning, or a dramatic antagonist role, and it has a gender inclusive variation with the "🦹♂️" male supervillain and "🦹♀️" female supervillain sequences using zero width joiners.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F9B9 |
| Version Added | 11.0 |
| Name | Supervillain |
| 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 0xA6 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDDB9 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F9B9 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\uddb9 |