😈 Meaning – Smiling Face with Horns Emoji

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The emoji of a smiling face with horns on its head generally means evil. The person is either trying to show he is diabolical or that he approves of an idea that seems evil and funny to him. This devilish smile often expresses glee at something that is considered bad or inappropriate. Devil Emoji is the equivalent of the interjection "muahahaha".

The Smiling Face with Horns Emoji appeared in 2010, and now is mainly known as the Devil Emoji, but also may be reffered as the Purple Emoji. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Purple Devil Emoji.

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Devil Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F608
Unicode name: Smiling Face with Horns
Category: Smileys & People / Fantasy Faces
Keywords: face, fairy tale, fantasy, horns, smile
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F608
Decimal HTML Entity: 😈
Hex HTML Entity: 😈
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDE08
Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

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🌐 Devil Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	grinsendes Gesicht mit Hörnern	Teufel
Français	visage souriant avec des cornes	cornes, fantastique, sourire, visage
Русский	улыбающийся чертенок	лицо, рога, сказка, улыбка, фэнтези
Español	cara sonriendo con cuernos	cara, cuernos, demonio, sonrisa
Italiano	faccina con sorriso e corna	corna, faccina, sorriso
Português	rosto sorridente com chifres	chifres, rosto, sorriso
Polski	uśmiechnięta twarz z rogami	diabełek, fantasy, rogi, różki, wesoły

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How to type Smiling Face with Horns Emoji

There are number of methods to type Devil Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 😈 emoji

It's very easy to get Smiling Face with Horns Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 😈 meaning and look at 😈 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

😈 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.