A supernatural being from Arabic folklore, said to grant wishes and often depicted as emerging from a bottle or lamp. Also known as a jinn or djinn.

May be used in contexts relating to wish-granting, magic, or fantasy. Can also reference variations of the phrase “the genie is out of the bottle,” used to describe a situation that cannot be undone once it has begun.

Several vendors’ designs for this emoji are highly reminiscent of the Genie character from Disney’s Aladdin films. As such, they are most commonly depicted with blue skin, though some platforms show them as purple or orange.

Microsoft and Twitter’s designs do not include a lamp, instead depicting only the bust of the genie rather than their full body. Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook have their genie wearing a turban.

Genie was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017.