Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
👺Goblin Emoji
Generally, it means someone is feeling a bit angry or frustrated. It can also be used for humorous effect, like when something is absurd.
The 👺 emoji is a Japanese “goblin” or “tengu” emoji.
- Unicode
- U+1F47A
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :japanese_
goblin: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 👺 Goblin emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 10.
02 — Platforms
Goblin emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the goblin 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
Goblin 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_goblin:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the goblin, code point U+1F47A.
04 — How to type
How to type the 👺 Goblin emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Goblin emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the goblin 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
Goblin emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around goblin 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 👺 means in other countries
Unicode calls it a “Japanese goblin” — the red long-nosed mask is a tengu, a mountain spirit from Shinto folklore.
Tengu masks appear at shrine festivals and represent a trickster-guardian spirit, not pure evil
Read as a plain fairy-tale goblin, mischievous or ugly, with no specific backstory behind it
Used loosely for a weak low-level enemy or a mildly annoying player in a match
Before you send it: Works fine as a generic troublemaker icon; don’t expect it to read as “evil” to someone who knows tengu folklore.
10 — Apps
What 👺 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F47A, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — History
Where the 👺 Goblin 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+1F47A 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 EB45.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Goblin was approved as U+1F47A 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