😈Smiling Face With Horns Emoji

😈 smiling face with horns — U+1F608, added in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Unicode groups it with the other 8 negative emojis under Smileys & Emotion.

What 😈 smiling face with horns means

Anger and its endpoints. 😤 reads as smug determination as often as frustration, 🤬 (Unicode calls it face with symbols on mouth) stands in for swearing, and 💀 has largely escaped its literal meaning - for a lot of users it now means something was funny enough to kill them, a job 😂 used to do.

Unicode tags this one demon, devil and evil and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Negative.

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+1F608`
HTML hex	`😈`
HTML decimal	`😈`
CSS	`\1F608`
JavaScript	`\u{1F608}`
Python	`\U0001F608`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE08`
Rust	`\u{1f608}`
Swift	`\u{1F608}`
PHP	`\u{1F608}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%88`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 88`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE08`
Base64	`8J+YiA==`
Decimal	`128520`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Keywords

Appears in these collections

How to type 😈

Windows — press Win + . and search “smiling face with horns”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “demon”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f608 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 😈 smiling face with horns emoji mean?+

😈 is the smiling face with horns emoji, tagged demon, devil and evil. Anger and its endpoints. 😤 reads as smug determination as often as frustration, 🤬 (Unicode calls it face with symbols on mouth) stands in for swearing, and 💀 has largely escaped its literal meaning - for a lot of users it now means something was funny enough to kill them, a job 😂 used to do.

What is the Unicode code for 😈?+

smiling face with horns is U+1F608. In HTML that is 😈, in CSS \1F608, and in JavaScript \u{1F608}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😈 emoji added?+

smiling face with horns got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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 Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😈 smiling face with horns.