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🙂‍↕️Head Shaking Vertically Emoji

Q: What does the 🙂↕️ head shaking vertically emoji mean?

🙂↕️ is the head shaking vertically emoji, tagged head, nod and shaking. Flat affect as a message in itself. 😐 and 😑 register that a thing happened and you have nothing kind to say about it; 🙄 and 🤨 push that into open doubt. The subgroup keeps growing in the awkward direction - 🫥 dotted line face, added in 2021, stands for feeling invisible or checked out entirely.

Unicode added 🙂‍↕️ head shaking vertically in Emoji 15.1 (2023), filed under Smileys & Emotion → Neutral / Skeptical. Its codepoint is U+1F642 U+200D U+2195 U+FE0F, and it is tagged head, nod and shaking.

What 🙂‍↕️ head shaking vertically means

Flat affect as a message in itself. 😐 and 😑 register that a thing happened and you have nothing kind to say about it; 🙄 and 🤨 push that into open doubt. The subgroup keeps growing in the awkward direction - 🫥 dotted line face, added in 2021, stands for feeling invisible or checked out entirely.

Unicode tags this one head, nod and shaking and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Neutral / Skeptical.

Shortcodes

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

How 🙂‍↕️ is built

This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.

🙂U+1F642slightly smiling face
·U+200DZero-width joiner
↕U+2195up-down arrow
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F642 U+200D U+2195 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`🙂‍↕️`
HTML decimal	`🙂‍↕️`
CSS	`\1F642\200D\2195\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{1F642}\u{200D}\u{2195}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0001F642\U0000200D\U00002195\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE42\u200D\u2195\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{1f642}\u{200d}\u{2195}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{1F642}\u{200D}\u{2195}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{1F642}\u{200D}\u{2195}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%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`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE42 200D 2195 FE0F`
Base64	`8J+ZguKAjeKGle+4jw==`
Decimal	`128578 8205 8597 65039`
Introduced	Emoji 15.1 (2023)

Keywords

head
nod
shaking
vertically
yes

Appears in these collections

How to type 🙂‍↕️

Windows — press Win + . and search “head shaking vertically”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “head”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f642 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 🙂‍↕️ head shaking vertically emoji mean?+

🙂‍↕️ is the head shaking vertically emoji, tagged head, nod and shaking. Flat affect as a message in itself. 😐 and 😑 register that a thing happened and you have nothing kind to say about it; 🙄 and 🤨 push that into open doubt. The subgroup keeps growing in the awkward direction - 🫥 dotted line face, added in 2021, stands for feeling invisible or checked out entirely.

What is the Unicode code for 🙂‍↕️?+

head shaking vertically is U+1F642 U+200D U+2195 U+FE0F. In HTML that is 🙂‍↕️, in CSS \1F642\200D\2195\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F642}\u{200D}\u{2195}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🙂‍↕️ emoji added?+

head shaking vertically got its emoji presentation in Emoji 15.1 (2023). 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 15.1 (2023)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🙂‍↕️ head shaking vertically.