The various emotions a human being can feel are all expressed by emojis, those small, expressive faces in different colors so popular with Internet users on social networks. Whether it's joy, tears, laughter, melancholy, anger or irony, everything can be expressed through smileys.
In this article, we talk about significations de l’émoji visage souriant avec des cornesor face with a devilish grin 😈 belonging to the group of emojis that express negative affects.

😈 Meaning and usage examples of the smiling emoji with horns
This emoji, with its devilish grin, expresses a priori the angerBut the facial features reflect several expressive nuances, which, as you'll have gathered, are not positive. On the platforms, he is depicted with a red or purple face. On the head, there are pointed or diabolical horns to refer to the figure of Satan or the devil. The face features an evil smile, two eyes joined by particularly frowning eyebrows, the whole giving a menacing aircausing both snide and Machiavellian.
This emoji is used to express sneaky ideato translate Machiavellian thoughts, to introduce a excitement, Where a desire to make something of myl, pass a malignant intent to a situation or to a person, or to translate a message implied or a ulterior motive (even in an erotic context).

Here are some examples of using the evil grin emoji in a sentence:
- I will give you the worst day of your life 😈.
- You don't know me yet, you'll see 😈.
- I will come to your house on Saturday evening 😈.
The origin of the smiling face with horns emoji
This smiling face with horns emoji belongs to the 2009 proposal, number L2/09-114. The details of this proposal, including the name, the file as well as the names of those who presented it are conferred below:
- Number : L2/09-114
- Last name : Towards an encoding of symbol characters used as emoji (WG2 N3607)
- Proposed by : Germany NB, Ireland NB
- Year of proposal: 2009
- Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 77
- Case : No.114, 2009 PDF: N3607 EMOJI
The smiling face with horns emoji proposal 😈 was approved by the Unicode Consortium and in 2015-06-09, it was subsequently released as Emoji version 1.0.
The characteristics of this emoji
This smiley is not to be confused with theemoji angry face with horns 👿even though they are very similar in appearance. In fact, the only difference between these two emojis is their mouths: the color, eyes, eyebrows and horns are the same. Their meanings remain quite different
In this table, we detail the characteristics of the evil smile emoji 😈:
Version | 1.0 (2015-06-09) |
Usual name | Smiley face with horns |
Category | Smilies and Emotions |
Sub-category | face-negative |
Apple designation | Smiley face with horns |
code point | U+1F608 Copy |
Decimal | ALT+128520 |
unicode | 6.0 (2010-10-11) |
Key words | Face-horns-smile-fantastic-smiling face with horns |
Other names | Satan smile emoji;
· Devil smile emoji. |
You can use the evil smile emoji 😈 to laugh with your loved ones. It's totally appropriate for making sarcasm, making a small threat, or challenging your lover, friend, or whatever.
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