Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
👿Angry Face with Horns Emoji
Generally, the 👿 emoji means someone is really angry or upset. It’s a visual representation of intense frustration or rage.
Also searched as mischievous emoji.
The 👿 emoji is an angry devil face with horns.
- Unicode
- U+1F47F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :imp:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 👿 Angry Face with Horns emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 14.
People also look for it as mischievous emoji, imp emoji.
02 — Platforms
Angry Face with Horns emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F47F. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Angry Face with Horns 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 :imp:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the angry face with horns, code point U+1F47F.
04 — How to type
How to type the 👿 Angry Face with Horns emoji
No picker to hand? The angry face with horns can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Angry Face with Horns emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Angry Face with Horns emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around angry face with horns 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 angry face with horns and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Around the world
What 👿 means in other countries
Reads as over-the-top rage — a cartoon tantrum, not a real threat, in nearly every context.
Exaggerated “I’m furious” over something minor, played for comedy.
Too cartoonish for a serious complaint — undercuts the point being made.
Before you send it: Use it for mock outrage among friends; leave it out if you actually need to be taken seriously.
10 — Apps
What 👿 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F47F, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
12 — Difference
👿 vs 😠 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Angry Face with Horns
Code: U+1F47F · added 2010
Shortcode: :imp:
Generally, the 👿 emoji means someone is really angry or upset.
Unicode name: Angry Face
Code: U+1F620 · added 2010
Shortcode: :angry:
Generally, 😠 means someone is angry or annoyed.
13 — History
Where the 👿 Angry Face with Horns 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+1F47F 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 E4EF, SoftBank E11A.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Angry Face with Horns was approved as U+1F47F 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.
14 — FAQ