Head shaking vertically emoji 🙂↕️
Emoji 15.1 (2023) · U+1F642 U+200D U+2195 U+FE0F
What 🙂↕️ means
Head shaking vertically 🙂↕️ goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: head, nod, shaking, vertically, yes.
Those words also drive emoji search: try head or nod 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
Technically 🙂↕️ is 2 emoji joined by an invisible character, the zero width joiner (U+200D): 🙂 slightly smiling face + ↕️ up-down arrow. Older phones show them one after the other.
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 vertically.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type head shaking vertically in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type head shaking vertically.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🙂↕️ as 4 code points, U+1F642 U+200D U+2195 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+2195 U+FE0F | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🙂‍↕️ | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🙂‍↕️ | |
| CSS | content: "\1F642 \200D \2195 \FE0F"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F642}\u200D\u2195\uFE0F | |
| URL | %F0%9F%99%82%E2%80%8D%E2%86%95%EF%B8%8F | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 99 82 E2 80 8D E2 86 95 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 vertically |
| Português | cabeça balançando na vertical |
| Español | cabeza asintiendo |
| Italiano | scuotere la testa in senso verticale |
| Français | tête secouée verticalement |
| Deutsch | Kopfnicken |
| Türkçe | dikey olarak sallanan yüz |
| Bahasa Indonesia | kepala mengangguk |
| Polski | głowa kiwająca się pionowo |
| Русский | положительно качает головой |
| 日本語 | 首を縦に振る |
| 한국어 | 끄덕끄덕 |
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All smileys & emotion emoji →Questions people ask
What does the head shaking vertically emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🙂↕️ "head shaking vertically" and links it with head, nod, shaking, vertically. 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 vertically 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.