If we find the ogre or the troll in European culture, Japanese folklore, meanwhile, has the Oni as an equivalent. They are actually a kind of yōkai, creatures with an important place in Japanese literature, theater and arts. In this article, we're talking about the barley emoji 👹. Discover the origin, meaning and characteristics of this creature as a smiley.
The origin of the emoji 👹
This emoji is from a 2007 and 2009 proposal, the details of which are presented below:
Emoji suggestion 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
Emoji suggestion 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.
👹 emoji meanings and usage examples
Since it is an emoji representing a monster, moreover, it is called "monster mask emoji", it is one of the smilies belonging to the party costume theme group. This emoji is represented with a small monster head covered in hair, with sharp and messy teeth, horns, a deformed nose, bulging eyes (bloodshot on other platforms) as well as messy hair.
At first glance, this emoji is in the form of a mask with creepy primitive features, however, being exaggerated, these features make it look hallucinated for comic effect. You should know that this mask is part of Japanese popular culture, where people wear it with beautiful costumes in order to hunt evil ghosts.
This emoji is used to represent evil, exorcism, ghosts, and is often associated with the evil smile emoji 😈, the evil angry face emoji 👿 and the Halloween pumpkin. It can also translate hunger. As a disguise, it is used to create comic effect in conversation.
Here are two examples of sentences in which we find the monster mask emoji:
- Where do you think you can find an ogre in France 👹?
- The ogre 👹 represents an emblem of Japanese folklore.
Characteristics of the emoji 👹
Discover in the table below the characteristics of the Japanese Ogre emoji:
| Version | 1.0 (2015-06-09) |
| Usual name | Ogre |
| Category | Smilies and Emotions |
| Sub-category | Face-suit |
| Apple designation | Ogre |
| code point | U+1F479 Copy |
| Decimal | ALT+128121 |
| unicode | 6.0 (2010-10-11) |
| Key words | Ogre-Japanese |
| Other names | · Emoji monster mask;
Monster Emoji. |
You now know a little more about Japanese barley, its meaning and the use of the emoji which represents it, called the monster mask emoji, in your posts.
