Angry Face with Horns Emoji
The scowling counterpart of the grinning devil — genuinely angry rather than mischievous.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Angry Face with Horns emoji mean?
The scowling counterpart of the grinning devil — genuinely angry rather than mischievous.
Genuinely cross, in costume. It is read as more serious than the grinning devil, though the cartoon framing keeps it from being threatening.
How to use 👿 naturally
Real annoyance in a playful register, and villain references.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 👿
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Angry Face with Horns 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
The same purple imp with a deep scowl. Only the mouth and brows differ from 😈, and that is the whole distance between mischief and malice.
- Today
How its use evolved
Real annoyance in a playful register, and villain references.
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.
Whoever finished the milk 👿
Rescheduled it for a fourth time 👿
They spoiled the ending on purpose 👿
When to use it
Using 👿 clearly
Real annoyance in a playful register, and villain references. It lands as angry face with horns 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 angry face with horns emoji
What does 👿 mean in a text message?
The scowling counterpart of the grinning devil — genuinely angry rather than mischievous. Genuinely cross, in costume. It is read as more serious than the grinning devil, though the cartoon framing keeps it from being threatening.
Is 👿 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are angry face with horns, 👿 meaning, imp emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 👿 look different on another device?
U+1F47F 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 angry face with horns 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 angry face with horns 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.
Angry Face with Horns or Smiling Face with Horns?
The same character in two moods. 😈 is mischief; 👿 is anger wearing the same costume.
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+1F47F | 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 | \1F47F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F47F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%91%BF | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F47F
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- angry face with horns👿 meaningimp emoji
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