Head shaking horizontally Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face shown in profile, moving from side to side in a clear gesture of refusal or disagreement. The motion is depicted with subtle blur effects to indicate the horizontal swinging of the head.

Usage Context

This emoji is used to signal 'no', decline an offer, or show disbelief. It acts as the direct physical counterpart to the nodding face 🙂‍↕, serving as a quick way to communicate negative feedback or rejection without typing out a sentence. It is frequently used in casual text threads to reject a bad idea or express a firm 'nope'.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2023 as part of Emoji 15.1, this character addressed a long-standing gap in digital communication by allowing users to convey head gestures that were previously limited to static icons or repetitive GIFs.

Details

Glyph

🙂‍↔

Unicode

U+1F642 U+200D U+2194

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f642_200d_2194:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE42;‍↔

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-neutral-skeptical

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

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