📖 Emojipedix

Angry Face With Horns 👿

Added in Emoji 0.6 · Smileys & Emotion Negative

Codepoint U+1F47F
Shortcode :angry_imp:
Version Emoji 0.6

Meaning

The genuinely evil twin: an angry, scowling face with prominent curved horns, representing actual malice or demonic fury rather than playful mischief. The expression is deeply furrowed and angry—sometimes with a sinister grin—making this the darkest horned face available. The horns are typically rendered in red or dark colors, and the overall impression is villainous and threatening, though in a theatrical way.

This emoji shows up when someone's expressing genuine anger paired with a sense of evil intent (usually jokingly). You might send it when you're angry *and* planning petty revenge, or when you're dramatically cursing someone out for betraying you. It's less commonly used than its smiling counterpart because fewer situations call for "actual demon energy," but when they do, this is the perfect choice.

People also use it for self-deprecating humor—claiming they're being evil or demonic in a playful way. In darker humor contexts or when discussing fictional villains, it fits perfectly. The key difference from the smiling horned face is that there's no humor masking the anger here; this is malevolence without a wink.

The angry horned face has existed since the earliest days of emoji, approved as part of Unicode Emoji 0.6 in 2010. It remains relatively rare in everyday messaging compared to other negative emotion emoji, reserved for moments when you want to combine anger with a theatrical, villainous flair.

Common Uses

  • Expressing anger mixed with spite or revenge
  • Joking about being evil or demonic
  • Reacting to truly villainous behavior
  • Dramatic self-deprecating humor

Popular Combos

👿😡 👿🔥 👿💔

Did You Know?

The angry horned face is significantly less popular than the smiling version, making it one of the more niche emoji despite being one of the oldest in the library.

Keywords

angry demon devil evil face fairy fairytale fantasy horns imp mischievous purple shade tale

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Technical Reference

Platform Shortcodes

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Developer Codes

HTML (decimal)
👿
HTML (hex)
👿
CSS
\1F47F
JavaScript
\uD83D\uDC7F
Python
\U0001F47F
Java
\uD83D\uDC7F
Perl
\x{1F47F}
PHP / Ruby
\x{1F47F}
Punycode
xn--2qv3
URL Encoded
%F0%9F%91%BF
UTF-8 Bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xBF

👿 in 28 languages

Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.

Language Name
Bengali শয়তান
Chinese (Simplified) 生气的恶魔
Chinese (Traditional) 惡魔
Danish sur lilla djævel
Dutch boos gezicht met hoorns
English angry face with horns
English (UK) angry face with horns
Estonian deemon
Finnish pikkupaholainen
French visage en colère avec des cornes
German wütendes Gesicht mit Hörnern
Hindi शैतान चेहरा
Hungarian mérges arc szarvakkal
Italian faccina arrabbiata con corna
Japanese 怒った悪魔
Korean 머리에 뿔이 달린 화난 얼굴
Lithuanian velniūkštis
Malay muka marah bertanduk
Norwegian sint djevel
Polish zagniewana twarz z rogami
Portuguese rosto zangado com chifres
Russian злой чертенок
Spanish cara enfadada con cuernos
Spanish (Mexico) cara malvada enfadada con cuernos
Swedish argt ansikte med horn
Thai หน้าบึ้งมีเขา
Ukrainian сердите обличчя з рогами
Vietnamese mặt giận giữ có sừng