Smiling Face with Horns Emoji
What does the Smiling Face with Horns emoji mean?
Typically shown as a purple face with small horns on either side, wide-open eyes and a sly grin. Its look can vary slightly between platforms, but it’s generally used to convey playful mischief, cheeky naughtiness, or a devil-may-care attitude, though in some contexts it can also imply cruel or malicious intent.
A red-faced smiley with a devilish glint: sly, narrowed eyes, eyebrows drawn together at the bridge of the nose, a thin grin and short horns atop its head. It’s similar in style to the evil emoji, but here the face is smiling with clear malicious intent.
A horned face with a sly smile is most often used when someone wants to tease, show off their coolness, or hint at their cunning. This kind of grin is often called diabolical.
Also Known As
- 😈 Devil
- 😈 Devil Horns
- 😈 Happy Devil
- 😈 Purple Devil
- 😈 Red Devil
Apple Name
- 😈 Smiling Face with Horns
Unicode Name
- 😈 Smiling Face with Horns
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Smiling Face with Horns emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
😈 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F608
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%98%88 |
| Punycode | xn--m28h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 98 88 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDE08 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f608 |
| CSS | \01F608 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F608} |
| Perl | \x{1F608} |
| HTML hex | 😈 |
| HTML dec | 😈 |
Tags: face, fairy tale, fantasy, horn, miling face with horn, demon, devil, evil, fairy, fairytale, horns, purple, shade, smile, smiling
Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Angry faces