Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 1.0
😈Smiling Face with Horns Emoji
Basically, it means someone is being a little devilish – playful, naughty, or mischievous. It’s often used for lighthearted fun.
The 😈 emoji is a devil face with horns.
- Unicode
- U+1F608
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :smiling_
imp: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 😈 Smiling Face with Horns emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as demon emoji, devil emoji, devil face emoji, purple devil emoji, horns emoji, purple demon emoji, smiling devil emoji, devil horns emoji.
02 — Platforms
Smiling Face with Horns emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F608 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your smiling face with horns looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Smiling 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 :smiling_imp:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the smiling face with horns, code point U+1F608.
04 — How to type
How to type the 😈 Smiling Face with Horns emoji
No picker to hand? The smiling face with horns can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Smiling 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
Smiling Face with Horns emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around smiling 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Around the world
What 😈 means in other countries
Mostly reads as playful mischief or flirtation, but the devil imagery carries more weight for some religious readers.
Flirty, cheeky, “I’m up to something” — used for jokes and teasing, not literal evil.
Devil imagery can read as genuinely negative rather than as a lighthearted joke.
Before you send it: Great for teasing friends; skip it with contacts who might take the horns literally.
10 — Apps
What 😈 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F608, 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: Smiling Face with Horns
Code: U+1F608 · added 2015
Shortcode: :smiling_imp:
Basically, it means someone is being a little devilish – playful, naughty, or mischievous.
Unicode name: Angry Face with Horns
Code: U+1F47F · added 2010
Shortcode: :imp:
Generally, the 👿 emoji means someone is really angry or upset.
13 — History
Where the 😈 Smiling Face with Horns emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the smiling face with horns to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F608 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.
Smiling Face with Horns was approved as U+1F608 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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