A grinning devil: mischief, naughty plans or a wicked idea.
Common with pranks, guilty pleasures, cheeky schemes and flirty messages. In romantic or sexual chat it signals naughty intent, so it can be suggestive. It is the bad-but-fun counterpart of ๐.
Facts
Smiling face with horns ๐ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face negative. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :smiling_imp: or :smiling_face_with_horns:. People also look for it with words like โdemonโ, โdevilโ, โevilโ, or โfaceโ.
Timeline
2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2015
2017
2020
2026
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.