😱Face Screaming In Fear Emoji

😱 face screaming in fear — U+1F631, added in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode groups it with the other 27 concerned emojis under Smileys & Emotion.

What 😱 face screaming in fear 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 epic, face and fear and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Concerned.

Copy variants

Different presentations of the same character — useful when a platform renders one form and not the other.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F631`
HTML hex	`😱`
HTML decimal	`😱`
CSS	`\1F631`
JavaScript	`\u{1F631}`
Python	`\U0001F631`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE31`
Rust	`\u{1f631}`
Swift	`\u{1F631}`
PHP	`\u{1F631}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%B1`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 B1`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE31`
Base64	`8J+YsQ==`
Decimal	`128561`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

epic
face
fear
fearful
munch
scared
scream
screamer
screaming
shocked
surprised
woah

Appears in these collections

How to type 😱

Windows — press Win + . and search “face screaming in fear”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “epic”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f631 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 😱 face screaming in fear emoji mean?+

😱 is the face screaming in fear emoji, tagged epic, face and fear. 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 😱?+

face screaming in fear is U+1F631. In HTML that is 😱, in CSS \1F631, and in JavaScript \u{1F631}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😱 emoji added?+

face screaming in fear got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😱 face screaming in fear.