woman superhero: medium-light skin tone
Unicode: 1F9B8 1F3FC 200D 2640 FE0F
Description
A female zombie emoji, depicted with decaying skin (light skin tone variation), an unkempt appearance, and typically dark, sunken eyes, representing a reanimated corpse.
Group:
People & Body > person-fantasy
Status:
fully-qualified
Emotion:
Often used to convey a sense of being 'brain-dead' from fatigue, exhaustion, or boredom; can also represent horror, Halloween themes, or a humorous 'undead' state.
Backstory
This emoji was added to Unicode as part of Emoji 5.0 in 2017 and specifically rendered as female (200D 2640 FE0F) by many platforms. It aligns with the growing popularity of zombies in pop culture across films, TV shows, and video games, offering a 'gendered' variant to the original zombie emoji.
Usage Examples
- After an all-nighter: 'I'm a total zombie today! 🧟♀️'
- On Halloween: 'Happy Halloween! Ready for some tricks or treats? 🧟♀️🎃'
- Expressing extreme fatigue: 'My brain feels like mush, I'm just a 🧟♀️ right now.'
- Humorously describing a dull meeting: 'That meeting made me feel like a 🧟♀️.'
Cultural Differences
Western culture:
Frequently associated with Halloween, horror genres, 'The Walking Dead' series, or humorously expressing extreme tiredness or a longing for coffee/brains.
East Asian culture:
Can be used in similar humorous contexts for tiredness, but less prevalent as a general concept in daily communication compared to its horror/Halloween association in Western media.