👺 Meaning: What does the Japanese monster emoji mean?

Let's talk about the Tengu 👺 emoji. First of all, what does the word "Tengu" mean? It actually means "heavenly dog" in Japanese. It's a legendary shape-shifting creature found in mountains and forests. The Tengu is said to be protean, as it is represented with both avian and human physical characteristics.

He is known for his frightening laughter, synonymous with aggression and hostility. As an emoji, does it represent these same characteristics? Let's take a closer look at the different meanings!

👺: The meaning and examples of use of the Japanese monster emoji

Among the mask- and costume-themed emojis is the ogre emoji, the ghost emoji, the clown emojiemoji, also known as the tengu emoji. "Japanese monster emoji. In fact, it shares many similarities with the Japanese ogre emoji, not only in its expressive features, but also in its origins - both originate from Japanese folklore. However, it also belongs to the group of evil emojis, including the devilish smile emoji 😈 and the angry evil face emoji 👿.

This emoji is depicted with a red face featuring a moustache, thick, furrowed eyebrows and a long nose, linking it to a deity called Shinto Saruta-Shoki, two eyes with a extremely menacing look. On Facebook, we see the tengu emoji with a carnivorous smile (we can see prominent canines). In Japanese folklore, this emoji is called "Goblin".

• In general, this emoji is used to signal misfortune, anger, but also to give a warning.

Here are some examples of sentences in which the Tengu emoji can be included:

1. Some people are really ruthless 👺 👺 👺. I never thought a human could carry out such an atrocity.
2. But why did this man have to do this to this poor animal 👺 👺?
3. I saw the news on TV, I was cold in the back 👺.

Origin of the smiley

This emoji is from a 2007 and 2009 proposal, the details of which are presented below:

Proposal number 1

• Number : L2/07-257
• Last name : Working Draft Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols (Associated tables in ZIP file)
• Proposed by : Markus Scherer, Kat Momoi, Mark Davis
• Year of proposal: 2007
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.257, 2007 HTML: EMOJI WD / No.257, 2007 ZIP: EMOJI WD TABLE

Proposal number 2

• Number : L2/09-026
• Last name : Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
• Proposed by : Kat Momoi, Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, Yasuo Kida, Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.), Darick Tong (Google Inc.)
• Year of proposal: 2009
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.026, 2009 PDF: R EMOJI PROPOSED / No.026, 2009 PDF: EMOJI PROPOSED

Proposal L2/07‑257(2007), L2/09‑026(2009) was approved by the Unicode Consortium and in 2015-06-02 it was released as Emoji version 1.0.

Features of this Tengu emoji

Discover in the table below the characteristics of the Japanese monster emoji:

En plus d’avoir eu quelques connaissances en plus sur le folklore japonais, notamment sur le chien céleste, maintenant, vous connaissez aussi comment utiliser l’émoji tengu 👺 dans vos messages que ce soit sur Discord, sur Skype, ou sur d’autres plateformes. Et que diriez-vous désormais de découvrir les différentes significations de l’émoji ☠️ ?

Bien que l’émoji tengu 👺 évoque des expressions plus menaçantes dans la culture japonaise, il est intéressant de contraster cela avec des émotions plus douces, comme celles exprimées par un smiley smile red cheek 😊, afin de montrer la vaste gamme d’expressions disponibles dans vos échanges quotidiens.