U+1F47B · emoji since 2010
The ghost is the friendliest spirit on the keyboard. It headlines every Halloween post, and the rest of the year it puns about ghosting, disappearing from chats, and feeling dead inside but cute.
Its goofy tongue out face keeps everything light. Spooky season mascot, dating app cautionary tale, and all around good time.
In texting, 👻 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 👻 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Ghost emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the ghost emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 👻 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.