Anger Symbol Emoji
The manga vein-pop mark, drawn as a red cross of bulging lines above an angry character.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Anger Symbol emoji mean?
The manga vein-pop mark, drawn as a red cross of bulging lines above an angry character.
Comic frustration borrowed from manga. It exaggerates annoyance rather than reporting it, so it usually lightens a complaint instead of sharpening it — the opposite of what 😡 does.
How to use 💢 naturally
Marking frustration in a comic register, often beside a face.
Reaction symbols work like visual emphasis: they reinforce a word, rate an idea or replace a short response. Repetition normally increases intensity, but it can also make a message feel more performative.
From standard to slang
The history of 💢
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Anger Symbol was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A cross of four bulging shapes, the manga mark for a popping vein. It is drawn beside a character, never on them, which is why it can stand alone.
- Today
How its use evolved
Marking frustration in a comic register, often beside a face.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 💢 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
The bus left two minutes early 💢
Someone ate my lunch out of the fridge 💢
Third time this week the printer has done this 💢
When to use it
Using 💢 clearly
Marking frustration in a comic register, often beside a face. It lands as anger symbol emoji or 💢 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the anger symbol emoji
What does 💢 mean in a text message?
The manga vein-pop mark, drawn as a red cross of bulging lines above an angry character. Comic frustration borrowed from manga. It exaggerates annoyance rather than reporting it, so it usually lightens a complaint instead of sharpening it — the opposite of what 😡 does.
Is 💢 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are anger symbol emoji, 💢 meaning, anime anger mark, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 💢 look different on another device?
U+1F4A2 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the anger symbol emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 💢 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the anger symbol emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 💢 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
Easily confused
💢 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Anger Symbol or Enraged Face?
😡 is a face genuinely angry. 💢 is a cartoon convention, which keeps the complaint light even when the words are not.
Anger Symbol or Collision?
💢 is a vein popping. 💥 is an explosion, so one is internal and the other is out in the world.
For developers
💢 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F4A2 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 💢 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 💢 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F4A2 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F4A2} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%92%A2 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F4A2
- Category
- Symbols & Reactions
- Also known as
- anger symbol emoji💢 meaninganime anger mark
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