The smiling face with horns is your playful little devil—purple, grinning, and clearly up to something deliciously chaotic. It screams “I did a thing” energy, perfect for pranks, petty victories, and that flirty, after-hours wink that says the halo’s off for the night. People drop it under thirst traps, sneaky link jokes, or to gloat when they outsmarted a friend in a game or a group chat debate. It also works ironically for tame crimes like eating the last slice or staying up past 10 like a rebel.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a glossy purple imp head with charcoal-black, curved horns, a full white-toothed grin, and arched brows that tilt inward to broadcast mischief. The face is front-facing with a smooth violet gradient and just enough shine to look cartoon-cute rather than truly evil. Think cartoon shoulder-devil meets Loki-lite: more trickster, less terror. Culturally, it tags Halloween invites, “villain arc” captions, rock/metal aesthetics, and any moment where “bad but fun” is the whole vibe.
A purple smiling face with low-set facial features, devilish eyebrows and horns. A sinister emoji with a strong desire to cause trouble.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 49 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :smiling_imp: |
| Keywords | Horns, Devil, Impish, Trouble |
| Unicode Category | Emoticons |
| Unicode Range | 1F600–1F64F |
| Unicode Subcategory | Faces |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 😈 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 😈 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 😈 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 😈 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f608 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F608 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128520 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x88 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 98 88 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 230 210 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE08 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde08 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56840 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F608 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F608 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128520 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F608" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x98\x88" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE08" |
