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👺 Japanese Goblin
Also known as: Long Nose Face, Red Mask, Tengu
Unicode: U+1F47A
Description
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.
Image Variants

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Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
creaturefacefairy talefantasygoblinmonster
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :goblin: | |
GitHub | :japanese_goblin: | |
Slack | :japanese_goblin: | |
Discord | :japanese_goblin: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Fairy tale symbols
Definition:
A red mask displayed with thick, hairy eyebrows, and a long nose. Goblin was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name “Japanes http://emojipedia.org/japanese-goblin/
Adjectives:
- Provoking fear terror
- Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
- Troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances.
- Showing displeasure or anger
- Irritated and roused to anger.
- Roused to anger- Mark Twain
- Aroused to impatience or anger
- Aroused to impatience or anger.
- Very large; worthy of a monster.
- Marked by extreme anger
- Marked by extreme anger.
- Of or relating to or characteristic of Japan or its people or their culture or language
Verbs:
- To behave as a monster to; to terrorise.
- Cause fear in
- To disturb with fear.
- To disturb with fear; to throw into a state of alarm or fright; to affright; to terrify.
- Frown with displeasure
- To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
- Become angry
- To become angry.
- To become enraged, angry, or irritated.
- To madden, to anger, to frustrate.
- Put a mask on or cover with a mask
- To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.
Nouns:
- A story about fairies; told to amuse children
- Fairy tales are a type of story which typically features fantasy characters, such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, dwarves, giants, mermaids, or gnomes, and usually magic or enchantments. tale
- A fairy tale is a type of short story that typically features European folkloric fantasy characters, such as dwarves, elves, fairies, giants, gnomes, goblins, mermaids, trolls, or witches, and usually magic or enchantments.
- A folktale featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters.
- A fictional story that usually features folkloric characters (such as fairies, goblins, elves, trolls, witches, giants, and talking animals) and enchantments
- Fictional story featuring folkloric fantasy characters
- Part of the body at the front of the head
- The face is a central organ of sense and is also very central in the expression of emotion among humans and among numerous other species.
- Faces are the central sense organ complexes, for those animals that have one, normally on the ventral surface of the head.
- The front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
- The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
- An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)