Fearful face emoji 😨
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F628
What 😨 means
Fearful face 😨 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: afraid, anxious, blame, face, fear, fearful, scared, worried.
Those words also drive emoji search: try afraid or anxious 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?
😨 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 😨
To find 😨 quickly, type fearful face into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type fearful face.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type fearful face in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type fearful face.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 😨 as one code point, U+1F628: 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+1F628 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 😨 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 😨 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F628"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F628} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%98%A8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 98 A8 |
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 | fearful face |
| Português | rosto amedrontado |
| Español | cara asustada |
| Italiano | faccina impaurita |
| Français | visage effrayé |
| Deutsch | ängstliches Gesicht |
| Türkçe | korkulu yüz |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wajah ketakutan |
| Polski | przestraszona twarz |
| Русский | боится |
| 日本語 | 青ざめ |
| 한국어 | 두려워하는 얼굴 |
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All smileys & emotion emoji →Questions people ask
What does the fearful face emoji mean?
Unicode calls 😨 "fearful face" and links it with afraid, anxious, blame, face. 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 fearful face emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the fearful face emoji?
To find 😨 quickly, type fearful face into the emoji search.