Distorted face emoji
Emoji 17.0 (2025) · U+1FAEA
What means
Distorted face goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: anxiety, bloated, panic, shocked, surprised, vulnerable.
Those words also drive emoji search: try anxiety or bloated on your phone to find .
On the emoji keyboard, sits with the worried and sad faces (27 emoji) inside smileys & emotion, which has 172 emoji, for example 🥺 🥹 😦 😧.
Will show on my friend's phone?
is recent (Emoji 17.0, 2025). Your friends need a system update from 2026 or later to see it.
How to type
To find quickly, type distorted face into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type distorted face.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type distorted face in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type distorted face.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees as one code point, U+1FAEA: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1FAEA | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🫪 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🫪 | |
| CSS | content: "\1FAEA"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAEA} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%AB%AA | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AB AA |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | distorted face |
| Português | rosto distorcido |
| Español | cara deformada |
| Italiano | faccina stravolta |
| Français | visage déformé |
| Deutsch | verzerrtes Gesicht |
| Türkçe | biçimsiz yüz |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wajah syok |
| Polski | wykrzywiona twarz |
| Русский | лицо перекосило |
| 日本語 | ゆがんだ顔 |
| 한국어 | 왜곡된 얼굴 |
More emoji like this
All smileys & emotion emoji →Questions people ask
What does the distorted face emoji mean?
Unicode calls "distorted face" and links it with anxiety, bloated, panic, shocked. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the worried and sad faces subgroup of smileys & emotion.
When was the distorted face emoji added?
In Emoji 17.0, released in 2025. Only phones and computers updated since 2026 show it; older ones may show a box.
How do I type the distorted face emoji?
To find quickly, type distorted face into the emoji search.