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🫪Distorted Face Emoji

Unicode added 🫪 distorted face in Emoji 17.0 (2025), filed under Smileys & Emotion → Concerned. Its codepoint is U+1FAEA, and it is tagged anxiety, bloated and panic.

What 🫪 distorted face means

The largest face subgroup, running from mild confusion through to full panic. Most of it is not literal: 😭 is used for laughing and for being overwhelmed at least as much as for crying, and 🥺 pleading face, added in 2018, became a way to ask for things with performed helplessness rather than actual distress.

Unicode tags this one anxiety, bloated and panic and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Concerned.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1FAEA`
HTML hex	`🫪`
HTML decimal	`🫪`
CSS	`\1FAEA`
JavaScript	`\u{1FAEA}`
Python	`\U0001FAEA`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDEEA`
Rust	`\u{1faea}`
Swift	`\u{1FAEA}`
PHP	`\u{1FAEA}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%AB%AA`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F AB AA`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DEEA`
Base64	`8J+rqg==`
Decimal	`129770`
Introduced	Emoji 17.0 (2025)

Keywords

anxiety
bloated
panic
shocked
surprised
vulnerable

Appears in these collections

How to type 🫪

Windows — press Win + . and search “distorted face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “anxiety”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1faea and Enter.
HTML — paste 🫪.

How 🫪 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

🫪Apple
🫪Segoe
🫪Noto
🫪System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 🫪 distorted face emoji mean?+

🫪 is the distorted face emoji, tagged anxiety, bloated and panic. The largest face subgroup, running from mild confusion through to full panic. Most of it is not literal: 😭 is used for laughing and for being overwhelmed at least as much as for crying, and 🥺 pleading face, added in 2018, became a way to ask for things with performed helplessness rather than actual distress.

What is the Unicode code for 🫪?+

distorted face is U+1FAEA. In HTML that is 🫪, in CSS \1FAEA, and in JavaScript \u{1FAEA}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🫪 emoji added?+

distorted face got its emoji presentation in Emoji 17.0 (2025). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Emoji 17.0 (2025)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🫪 distorted face.