Angry face with horns shares its purple horns and glare with its smiling counterpart, but the mouth has flipped from a grin into a genuine scowl. It reads as real anger with a theatrical, moustache-twirling edge rather than an actual threat.
What 👿 means
A purple face with low, frowned eyebrows, death-staring eyes, and a sad curve for a mouth and two purple horns. This emoji shows anger (as the name suggests), irritation, rage, resentment, and bitter hatred too.
The 👿 emoji is the same as the 😈 Smiling Face With Horns, the only difference is the mouth expression. Besides anger, the mouth here also signifies sadness, slight grief, and the dramatic amalgam of both sadness and anger.
How and when to use it
- If you're both angry and sad at the same time, send this emoji to express that complex emotion.
- If you were trying to be naughty and the other person ruined it, send it emoji as a way of showing that the devil in you is pissed off.
- This emoji can also be used to intensely animate your feelings of hate and anger towards something or someone.
- If your evil plan didn't go according to the T, then send this emoji to the ones who knew about the plan in the first place.
- You can also show feelings of mild sadness, irritation, and frustration with this emoji.
- If you're so pissed that you're gripping your teeth and clenching your fists, then emoji-fy that emotion with this emoji.
Other Names
- 👿 Hatred
- 👿 Sad Devil
- 👿 Angry Devil
- 👿 Evil
- 👿 Anger
- 👿 Irritated
- 👿 Frustrated
- 👿 Purple Devil
- 👿 Purple Goblin
- 👿 Devil
- 👿 Devil Horns
- 👿 Revenge Face
👿 in real conversations
What does 👿 mean in texting?
Mock-devilish anger — a scowling face with little horns, used for exaggerated frustration or a playful "I'm plotting revenge" threat. It rarely means real fury; the cartoon horns keep it in joke territory, more sitcom villain than actual malice.
Is 👿 evil or just mischievous?
Mischievous, almost always. It shows up after losing a game and vowing a rematch, or teasing a friend with a fake threat — closer to a pantomime villain hamming it up than an actual dark sentiment behind the words.
Is 👿 different from 😈?
Yes — 😈 grins, and reads as flirty or cheekily wicked, while 👿 scowls, and reads as annoyed or vengeful instead. Same horns, opposite moods: one's a smirk aimed at fun, the other's a glare aimed at payback.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-negative
- Codepoints
U+1F47F- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:imp:- Keywords
- angry, demon, devil, evil, face, fairy, fairytale, fantasy, horns, imp, mischievous, purple, shade, tale
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 👿 Angry Face with Horns or 🐆 Leopard?
Runs with a crowd
👿 keeps company in angry emojis and purple emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.