The various emotions that a human can feel are all translated by emojis, these small expressive faces, of different colors so popular with Internet users on the social networks. Whether it's joy, tears, laughter, melancholy, anger, or irony, anything can be expressed through smileys. In this article, we tell you about the smiling face with horns emoji, or evil smiley face 😈 belonging to the group of emojis that express negative affects.
The origin of the 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.
😈 emoji meanings and examples of use
This emoji, with the devilish smile, expresses a priori anger, but the features of the face reflect several expressive nuances, which, as you will have understood, are not positive. On the platforms, he is represented 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 displays an evil smile, two eyes joined by particularly frowning eyebrows, the whole thing gives a threatening, provocative look, both sly and Machiavellian.
We use this emoji to express a sly idea, to translate Machiavellian thoughts, to convey an excitement, or a desire to do something bad, to convey a malicious intention in the face of a situation or vis-à-vis a person, or even to translate a implied or an 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 😈.
Characteristics of the emoji 😈
This smiley should not be confused with the angry face with horns emoji 👿, even though they look very similar in appearance. Indeed, the difference between these two emojis can only be seen on their mouths, the color, the eyes, the eyebrows, the horns, are the same. Their meanings are very 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.
