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🧞 Genie
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🧞 Emoji meaning
Make a wish! Danger, supernatural help, magic, three wishes.
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🧞 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? 🧞
- That’s pure magic! 🧞
- I wish I had one wish left. 🧞
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Commonly confused with
ZWJ Sequence
Genie vs man genie; male presentation of the same genie concept.
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 lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Genie” 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
