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🫠Melting Face Emoji

🫠 melting face — U+1FAE0, added in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Unicode groups it with the other 14 smiling emojis under Smileys & Emotion.

What 🫠 melting face means

The default reaction set: acknowledgement, warmth, a laugh at something that was only mildly funny. These do most of the light social work in a chat. Tone has drifted, though - plenty of younger users read the plain 🙂 as clipped or passive-aggressive rather than friendly, so it now lands closer to a raised eyebrow than a smile.

Unicode tags this one disappear, dissolve and embarrassed and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Smiling.

Shortcodes

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

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1FAE0`
HTML hex	`🫠`
HTML decimal	`🫠`
CSS	`\1FAE0`
JavaScript	`\u{1FAE0}`
Python	`\U0001FAE0`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDEE0`
Rust	`\u{1fae0}`
Swift	`\u{1FAE0}`
PHP	`\u{1FAE0}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%AB%A0`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F AB A0`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DEE0`
Base64	`8J+roA==`
Decimal	`129760`
Introduced	Emoji 14.0 (2021)

Keywords

disappear
dissolve
embarrassed
face
haha
heat
hot
liquid
lol
melt
melting
sarcasm
sarcastic

Appears in these collections

How to type 🫠

Windows — press Win + . and search “melting face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “disappear”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1fae0 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 🫠 melting face emoji mean?+

🫠 is the melting face emoji, tagged disappear, dissolve and embarrassed. The default reaction set: acknowledgement, warmth, a laugh at something that was only mildly funny. These do most of the light social work in a chat. Tone has drifted, though - plenty of younger users read the plain 🙂 as clipped or passive-aggressive rather than friendly, so it now lands closer to a raised eyebrow than a smile.

What is the Unicode code for 🫠?+

melting face is U+1FAE0. In HTML that is 🫠, in CSS \1FAE0, and in JavaScript \u{1FAE0}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🫠 emoji added?+

melting face got its emoji presentation in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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 14.0 (2021)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🫠 melting face.