💢Anger Symbol Emoji
Generally, the 💢 means someone is really angry or frustrated. It’s a visual way to show you’re upset about something.
The 💢 emoji is a red face with veins popping out, often depicted with a clenched fist or a visible vein.
- Unicode
- U+1F4A2
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :anger:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 💢 Anger Symbol emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
Anger Symbol emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the anger symbol as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Anger Symbol 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 :anger:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F4A2.
How to type the 💢 Anger Symbol emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Anger Symbol emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the anger symbol as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Anger Symbol emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around anger symbol for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
What 💢 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 💢 means in other countries
The classic manga “anger vein” cue, recognizable worldwide thanks to anime, though its origin is specifically Japanese comics.
A visual shorthand for a character being visibly annoyed or enraged.
Used to express mild frustration or exasperation among friends.
Reads as genuinely annoyed rather than playful, better avoided there.
Before you send it: Great for venting to friends; in professional threads it can land as real anger rather than a joke.
What 💢 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the anger symbol lands changes how it is taken.
💢 vs 🗯 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Anger Symbol
Code: U+1F4A2 · added 2010
Shortcode: :anger:
Generally, the 💢 means someone is really angry or frustrated.
Unicode name: Right Anger Bubble
Code: U+1F5EF · added 2014
Shortcode: :right_anger_bubble:
It usually means someone is really angry or upset.
Where the 💢 Anger Symbol 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+1F4A2 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
NTT DoCoMo E6FC, KDDI au E4E5, SoftBank E334.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Anger Symbol was approved as U+1F4A2 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.