We're all familiar with the term ghost. Basically, it's the spiritual entity that separates from the body after death. In most funeral rites, the mortal remains are wrapped in a white shroud. This is why the ghost has always been depicted with a white cloth, whether in a cartoon or a film, and even as an emoji.
This article is precisely written to tell you a little more about the 👻 ghost emoji, its origin, meaning and characteristics.
👻: The meaning of the ghost emoji
This emoji belongs to the group of emojis whose theme is "party disguise". However, it is also one of the emojis with a “supernatural” theme. In terms of appearance, it is inspired by classic representations of the ghost, that is to say with an out-of-white, rather vaporous or cloudy appearance.
The difference with the popular ghost figure is that the ghost emoji is represented with a smile stretching out its tongue for amusing effect, just like the ghost emoji. the tongue-tied emoji. Depending on the platform, it may also appear with a wink, such as the winking face emoji to look comical, or with one eye disproportionate to the other for hilarious effect. The emoji usually features arms in a V sign.
- The ghost emoji is used in a humorous toneeven if it is sometimes associated with themes of spiritualism, of the witchcraft and fetish parties (during Halloween scenes, for example).
- In secondary education, it is used to create a climate of complicity in a discussion, to scoff without turning nasty, in order to lecture someone as a result of its elusiveness, for example.
- It also designates a elusive nature of a particular person.
Here are some examples of sentences that can be associated with the ghost emoji:
- As usual, you have to leave without saying goodbye to anyone 👻 👻 👻.
- Do you like watching horror movies 👻? I adore.
- OMG, he's back to life after months of absence?👻⚰️
The ghost smiley usually goes wonderfully well with thescared screaming face emojibut you can combine it with any emoji as long as you're teasing a specific person.
Origin of this ghost emoji
This emoji is from a 2007 and 2009 proposal, the details of which are presented below:
Proposal number 1
- Number : L2/07-257
- Last name : Working Draft Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols (Associated tables in ZIP file)
- Proposed by : Markus Scherer, Kat Momoi, Mark Davis
- Year of proposal: 2007
- Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
- Case : No.257, 2007 HTML: EMOJI WD / No.257, 2007 ZIP: EMOJI WD TABLE
Proposal number 2
- Number : L2/09-026
- Last name : Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
- Proposed by : Kat Momoi, Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, Yasuo Kida, Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.), Darick Tong (Google Inc.)
- Year of proposal: 2009
- Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
- Case : No.026, 2009 PDF: R EMOJI PROPOSED / No.026, 2009 PDF: EMOJI PROPOSED
Proposal L2/07‑257(2007), L2/09‑026(2009) was approved by the Unicode Consortium and in 2015-06-02 it was released as Emoji version 1.0.
Characteristics of the ghost smiley
Discover in the table below the characteristics of the ghost emoji:
| Version | 1.0 (2015-06-09) |
| Usual name | Phantom |
| Category | Smilies and Emotions |
| Sub-category | Face-suit |
| Apple designation | Phantom |
| code point | U+1F47B Copy |
| Decimal | ALT+128123 |
| unicode | 6.0 (2010-10-11) |
| Key words | face-ghost-fantasy-monster-creature |
| Other names |
· Emoji chimera; Ectoplasm Emoji; Casper Emoji; · Ghost Emoji. |
Now you know how to integrate the 👻 ghost emoji into your posts or comments. Don't hesitate to use it to add dynamism and fun to your texts!
