Head shaking horizontally emoji 🙂↔️
Emoji 15.1 (2023) · U+1F642 U+200D U+2194 U+FE0F
What 🙂↔️ means
Head shaking horizontally 🙂↔️ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: head, horizontally, no, shake, shaking.
Those words also drive emoji search: try head or horizontally on your phone to find 🙂↔️.
On the emoji keyboard, 🙂↔️ sits with the neutral and skeptical faces (16 emoji) inside smileys & emotion, which has 172 emoji, for example 🙂↕️ 🤐 🤨 😐.
Will 🙂↔️ show on my friend's phone?
🙂↔️ is recent (Emoji 15.1, 2023). Your friends need a system update from 2024 or later to see it.
What 🙂↔️ is made of
🙂↔️ is a sequence of 2 emoji: 🙂 slightly smiling face + ↔️ left-right arrow, glued together with the invisible zero width joiner (U+200D). A phone that does not know the combination shows the parts side by side.
How to type 🙂↔️
To find 🙂↔️ quickly, type head into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type head shaking horizontally.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type head shaking horizontally in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type head shaking horizontally.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🙂↔️ as 4 code points, U+1F642 U+200D U+2194 U+FE0F: 13 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 5 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F642 U+200D U+2194 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🙂‍↔️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🙂‍↔️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F642 \200D \2194 \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F642}\u200D\u2194\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%99%82%E2%80%8D%E2%86%94%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 99 82 E2 80 8D E2 86 94 EF B8 8F |
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 | head shaking horizontally |
| Português | cabeça virando de um lado para o outro |
| Español | cabeza negando |
| Italiano | scuotere la testa in senso orizzontale |
| Français | tête secouée horizontalement |
| Deutsch | Kopfschütteln |
| Türkçe | yatay olarak sallanan yüz |
| Bahasa Indonesia | kepala bergeleng |
| Polski | głowa kręcąca się poziomo |
| Русский | отрицательно качает головой |
| 日本語 | 首を横に振る |
| 한국어 | 도리도리 |
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All smileys & emotion emoji →Questions people ask
What does the head shaking horizontally emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🙂↔️ "head shaking horizontally" and links it with head, horizontally, no, shake. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the neutral and skeptical faces subgroup of smileys & emotion.
When was the head shaking horizontally emoji added?
In Emoji 15.1, released in 2023. Only phones and computers updated since 2024 show it; older ones may show a box.
Why does 🙂↔️ sometimes show as separate emoji?
It is a combination of 🙂 + ↔️ joined by an invisible zero width joiner. Phones that do not know the combined emoji yet show the pieces one by one.