Angry Face With Horns Emoji

What does the Angry Face With Horns emoji mean?

👿 is the Angry Face With Horns emoji from the Smileys & Emotion collection. Like other Unicode emojis, it provides a compact visual shorthand for angry face with horns that enhances tone and clarity in digital communication. Technically it is encoded at Unicode code point U+1F47F and was added in Emoji 1.0 (2015), so every up-to-date system can display and exchange it reliably. Because tone is hard to convey in plain text, this emoji functions as digital body language. It is often paired with greetings, apologies, thanks, or reactions to add empathy and reduce friction in fast-moving conversations. On Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and other vendors the artwork differs slightly — colour palette, shading, and line weight change — but the core concept of angry face with horns stays identical, so the emoji remains universally readable. You can copy this emoji as the character itself (👿), as an HTML entity (👿), or as a shortcode (:angry-face-with-horns:) for platforms like Slack, Discord, and GitHub.

This detailed meaning was written by the UseEmoji editorial team after reviewing Unicode CLDR data and real-world usage. For quick identification, think of this emoji as shorthand for angry face with horns — it conveys that idea faster than words while keeping the message friendly and scannable.

How to use the Angry Face With Horns emoji

• In chat: Drop 👿 into a sentence where you would normally write “angry face with horns” to add tone and visual interest.
• On social media: Pair 👿 with a keyword or hashtag to make captions more searchable and expressive.
• In documents and code: Use the HTML entity 👿 or shortcode :angry-face-with-horns: when the raw character may be escaped or unsupported.

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