👺 Goblin

Emoji Meaning

A menacing, red mask featuring a grotesquely long nose, angry eyes, and bushy eyebrows and mustache. Depicts a tengu, a proud trickster figure in Japanese folklore.

May popularly denote evil, anger, cruel or mischievous behavior, and sexual suggestion, due to the phallic appearance of its nose. May also represent supernatural or figurative trolls, goblins, and other such beings.

Goblin was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Japanese Goblin” and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.