Exploding head emoji 🤯
Emoji 5.0 (2017) · U+1F92F
What 🤯 means
In Unicode's CLDR data, Exploding head 🤯 is tagged with these keywords: blown, explode, exploding, head, mind, mindblown, no, shocked, way.
Phone keyboards use the same keywords, so typing blown or explode in the emoji search brings up 🤯.
Exploding head 🤯 is one of 12 emoji in the sick faces subgroup of smileys & emotion (172 emoji), next to 😷 🤒 🤕 🤢.
Will 🤯 show on my friend's phone?
🤯 was added in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Phones updated in the last few years show it; a very old phone may show a box instead.
How to type 🤯
Any emoji picker finds 🤯 when you search for exploding head.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type exploding head.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type exploding head in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type exploding head.
Codes for developers
Exploding head 🤯 is a single code point, U+1F92F. In UTF-8 it takes 4 bytes, and in JavaScript its string length is 2.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F92F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🤯 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤯 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F92F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F92F} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A4%AF | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 AF |
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 | exploding head |
| Português | cabeça explodindo |
| Español | cabeza explotando |
| Italiano | testa che esplode |
| Français | tête qui explose |
| Deutsch | explodierender Kopf |
| Türkçe | patlayan kafa |
| Bahasa Indonesia | kepala meledak |
| Polski | eksplodująca głowa |
| Русский | взрыв мозга |
| 日本語 | 頭爆発 |
| 한국어 | 폭발하는 얼굴 |
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All smileys & emotion emoji →Questions people ask
What does the exploding head emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🤯 "exploding head" and links it with blown, explode, exploding, head. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sick faces subgroup of smileys & emotion.
When was the exploding head emoji added?
In Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. Phones updated since about 2018 show it.
How do I type the exploding head emoji?
Any emoji picker finds 🤯 when you search for exploding head.