Enraged Face Emoji
A red, scowling face showing open anger rather than the sulking kind.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Enraged Face emoji mean?
A red, scowling face showing open anger rather than the sulking kind.
Unmistakably angry and quite forceful. Directed at a person rather than a situation it escalates quickly, so it works best on shared complaints.
How to use 😡 naturally
Strong complaints and outrage, usually about a situation rather than the person you are messaging.
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, Enraged Face 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 red face with a deep frown. The colour is doing almost all of the work: the same features on a yellow face are merely cross.
- Today
How its use evolved
Strong complaints and outrage, usually about a situation rather than the person you are messaging.
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.
They cancelled the train again 😡
Two hours on hold and then cut off 😡
Someone parked across the drive 😡
When to use it
Using 😡 clearly
Strong complaints and outrage, usually about a situation rather than the person you are messaging. It lands as enraged face meaning or angry emoji 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 enraged face emoji
What does 😡 mean in a text message?
A red, scowling face showing open anger rather than the sulking kind. Unmistakably angry and quite forceful. Directed at a person rather than a situation it escalates quickly, so it works best on shared complaints.
Is 😡 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are enraged face meaning, angry emoji, red angry face emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😡 look different on another device?
U+1F621 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 enraged face 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 enraged face 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.
Enraged Face or Face with Steam from Nose?
😤 can read as determination as easily as frustration. 😡 has only one reading, and it is much stronger.
Enraged Face or Unamused Face?
😒 is annoyed and restrained. 😡 is openly furious, so it escalates a conversation that 😒 would not.
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+1F621 | 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 | \1F621 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F621} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%A1 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F621
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- enraged face meaningangry emojired angry face emoji
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