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Looking for something hotter than the red angry face but sillier than the purple imp? The ogre emoji is your mythic-tier reaction image. In group chats and on timelines, it teams up with the goblin emoji for a maximum-chaos duo, or rides with skulls and flames when you’re entering your villain arc.

It riffs on the classic Japanese oni—a horned, furious demon visage that shouts “beware” yet also reads “lol I haven’t had coffee.” People toss it in to broadcast ragey vibes, chaotic energy, or that playful “I’m the villain in my own story” aura. You’ll see it in meme talk next to “demon time,” anime gags, and endless Shrek bits—cue “Get out of my swamp” for dramatic effect. There’s folklore in the mix, too: during Japan’s Setsubun, oni appear as beans are thrown to drive them away.

On Apple/iOS, it shows up as a front-facing, tomato-red mask with two short yellow horns, scruffy dark hair, a furrowed unibrow vibe, bulging eyes, and a snarling mouth packed with sharp fangs—pure “do not test me” energy. Loud and instantly recognizable, it’s perfect for hangry confessions, boss-fight hype, or lovingly calling out someone’s inner monster. It also lands as sarcasm (“me after leg day”), flirt-adjacent signaling (“I’m trouble, ask nicely”), or a comic stand-in for rage without going full caps lock.

Definition

A traditional Japanese Oni. A red demon, troll, ogre, monster, or devil. A mask worn in theater to represent an evil creature, complete with all the essential characteristics of a monster, such as horns, sharp teeth, and dark hair.

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji first appeared in OSX / iOS after the iOS 5 update.

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	367 of 2393
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ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:japanese_ogre:
Keywords	Japanese, Oni, Demon, Troll, Ogre, Folklore, Monster, Devil, Mask, Theater, Horns, Teeth
Previous Names:	Japanese Ogre

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Miscellaneous Symbols and Pictographs
Unicode Range	1F300–1F5FF
Unicode Subcategory	Fairy Tale Symbols

Editorial Comment

Some describe this emoji as "cute," but I'm not seeing that at all.

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Human/living Things
Unicode Subcategory	Fairy Tale Symbols
Names & Annotations	JAPANESE OGRE Old name: OGRE Temporary Notes: In Japanese, "Oni" - could be a red or blue faced demon. Also refers to "Namahage" - a local year-end event in Akita.
Symbol Information	U+1F479 proposed
Proposal Identifier	e-1AC

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	[なまはげ]
KDDI	#754 なまはげ 「namahage」 U+EB44 SJIS-F448 JIS-7B29
Softbank	[なまはげ]

Emoji Character Encoding Data

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)	1f479
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F479
Decimal Code Point(s)	128121
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0xB9
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 91 B9
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 221 271
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83D 0xDC79
UTF-16 Hex	d83ddc79
UTF-16 Dec	55357 56441
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F479
UTF-32 Hex	01F479
UTF-32 Dec	128121
Python Src	u"\U0001F479"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x91\xb9"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83D\uDC79"

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