Zombie 🧟
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The zombie emoji, depicting a creepy undead figure with greenish skin, hollow eyes, and arms outstretched forward. This emoji is used to express zombies, the undead, horror, and Halloween. Common usage includes 'Zombie cosplay🧟' 'Tired like a zombie🧟' or 'Post all-nighter zombie🧟' This is the gender-neutral version. Added in Unicode 10.0 in 2017 as part of the fantasy emoji series. Zombies originated in Haitian Vodou folklore but became staples of modern horror after George A.

Romero's film 'Night of the Living Dead' (1968). The emoji is perfect for representing zombies from popular culture works like 'Resident Evil,' 'World War Z,' '28 Days Later,' 'Zombieland,' 'The Walking Dead,' 'Kingdom,' 'The Last of Us,' and other zombie media that has captivated global audiences. It's widely used for Halloween costumes, horror movies, video games, survival games, and zombie walks (events where people walk through cities dressed as zombies). It's also commonly used as humorous self-expression for being tired, exhausted, or sleep-deprived after late nights.