Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
👹Ogre Emoji
Generally, the 👹 emoji just means “monster” or “demon.” People use it to show something is scary, bad, or just a little bit weird.
The 👹 emoji is an ogre face.
- Unicode
- U+1F479
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :japanese_
ogre: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 👹 Ogre emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 10.
People also look for it as devil mask emoji.
02 — Platforms
Ogre emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the ogre as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Ogre emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :japanese_ogre:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F479.
04 — How to type
How to type the 👹 Ogre emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F479 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Ogre emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the ogre as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Ogre emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around ogre for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👹, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 👹 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the ogre and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 👹 means in other countries
In Japan this reads as “oni,” the folklore demon tied to Setsubun bean-throwing, not a plain western monster mask.
Recognized specifically as “oni,” the demon chased off every February by throwing roasted beans
Read as a generic scary costume mask for the season, with no folklore attached to it at all
Used loosely to say someone is being grumpy, stubborn, or acting like a brute today
Before you send it: Fine for spooky-season posts; with a Japanese friend, know it points to a specific folklore figure, not just “monster.”
10 — Apps
What 👹 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F479, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — History
Where the 👹 Ogre emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F479 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👹 existed there as
KDDI au EB44.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Ogre was approved as U+1F479 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👹 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ