👹Ogre Emoji

👹 ogre is encoded at U+1F479 and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Smileys & Emotion → Costumed & Creatures, alongside 7 related emojis.

What 👹 ogre means

Masks, monsters and things that are not faces at all. Used for self-deprecation (🤡 for admitting you were the fool), Halloween, and gaming. 👾 is formally named alien monster but is drawn on most platforms as an arcade sprite, and 💩 reached Unicode from the Japanese carrier sets that seeded the original emoji list.

Unicode tags this one creature, devil and face and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Costumed & Creatures.

Copy variants

Different presentations of the same character — useful when a platform renders one form and not the other.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F479`
HTML hex	`👹`
HTML decimal	`👹`
CSS	`\1F479`
JavaScript	`\u{1F479}`
Python	`\U0001F479`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDC79`
Rust	`\u{1f479}`
Swift	`\u{1F479}`
PHP	`\u{1F479}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%91%B9`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 91 B9`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DC79`
Base64	`8J+RuQ==`
Decimal	`128121`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

creature
devil
face
fairy
fairytale
fantasy
mask
monster
scary
tale

Appears in these collections

How to type 👹

Windows — press Win + . and search “ogre”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “creature”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f479 and Enter.
HTML — paste 👹.

How 👹 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

👹Apple
👹Segoe
👹Noto
👹System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 👹 ogre emoji mean?+

👹 is the ogre emoji, tagged creature, devil and face. Masks, monsters and things that are not faces at all. Used for self-deprecation (🤡 for admitting you were the fool), Halloween, and gaming. 👾 is formally named alien monster but is drawn on most platforms as an arcade sprite, and 💩 reached Unicode from the Japanese carrier sets that seeded the original emoji list.

What is the Unicode code for 👹?+

ogre is U+1F479. In HTML that is 👹, in CSS \1F479, and in JavaScript \u{1F479}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 👹 emoji added?+

ogre got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 👹 ogre.