๐Ÿงž

๐Ÿงž Emoji meaning

Make a wish! Danger, supernatural help, magic, three wishes.

๐Ÿงž Meaning

Tales from Thousand and One Nights, I Dream of Jeannie or Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. Character from oriental fairy tales: Locked in a bottle or lamp for punishment, the genie must satisfy three wishes for everyone who frees him. Metaphor for self-inflicted danger.

Examples

  • Got a wish? ๐Ÿงž
  • Thatโ€™s pure magic! ๐Ÿงž
  • I wish I had one wish left. ๐Ÿงž

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Commonly confused with

ZWJ Sequence

Genie
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Man genie

Genie vs man genie; male presentation of the same genie concept.

Genie
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Woman genie

Genie vs woman genie; both magical genies emerging from lamps or smoke.

Variants

gender

U+1F9DE U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F

Man genie
gender

U+1F9DE U+200D U+2640 U+FE0F

Woman genie

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji โ€œGenieโ€ was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ fantasy + jinn + lamp + myth + rub + wishes

In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ genie

In the release of Emoji 4.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ djinn

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