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😨Fearful Face Emoji
😨 fearful face is encoded at U+1F628 and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Smileys & Emotion → Concerned, alongside 26 related emojis.
What 😨 fearful 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 afraid, anxious and blame and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Concerned.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F628 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 😨 | |
| HTML decimal | 😨 | |
| CSS | \1F628 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F628} | |
| Python | \U0001F628 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE28 | |
| Rust | \u{1f628} | |
| Swift | \u{1F628} | |
| PHP | \u{1F628} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%98%A8 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 98 A8 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE28 | |
| Base64 | 8J+YqA== | |
| Decimal | 128552 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 😨
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “fearful face”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “afraid”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f628and 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 😨 fearful face emoji mean?+
😨 is the fearful face emoji, tagged afraid, anxious and blame. 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 😨?+
fearful face is U+1F628. In HTML that is 😨, in CSS \1F628, and in JavaScript \u{1F628}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 😨 emoji added?+
fearful face 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.
Related emojis
More emojis from Concerned in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😨 fearful face.