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Meaning & usage
What does the Troll emoji mean?
A fairy-tale troll with a club, green and heavy-browed.
Storybook rather than insulting. People do reach for it to mean an internet troll, but the picture is a fairy-tale creature and reads that way first.
How to use 🧌 naturally
Folklore, fantasy games and, loosely, people stirring trouble online.
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 🧌
- 2021
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Troll was first defined as emoji in Emoji 14.0, dated 2021. A release whose additions were quickly adopted as reactions.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A green troll with a club and a heavy brow, drawn from Nordic folklore and added in 2021. It is not the trollface meme, which is a drawing and has never been an emoji.
- Today
How its use evolved
Folklore, fantasy games and, loosely, people stirring trouble online.
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.
Under the bridge, as tradition demands 🧌
New fantasy series is excellent 🧌
Ignore the comments 🧌
When to use it
Using 🧌 clearly
Folklore, fantasy games and, loosely, people stirring trouble online. It lands as troll emoji or troll face 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 troll emoji
What does 🧌 mean in a text message?
A fairy-tale troll with a club, green and heavy-browed. Storybook rather than insulting. People do reach for it to mean an internet troll, but the picture is a fairy-tale creature and reads that way first.
Is 🧌 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are troll emoji, troll face emoji, 🧌 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🧌 look different on another device?
U+1F9CC 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 troll 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 troll emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🧌 as emoji in Emoji 14.0, dated 2021. 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.
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+1F9CC | 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 | \1F9CC | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F9CC} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A7%8C | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F9CC
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- troll emojitroll face emoji🧌 meaning
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