U+1FAEA · emoji since 2025
The distorted face looks warped and melting, twisted out of shape. It means feeling weird, glitchy, and not quite right.
One of the newest faces, it tags a surreal, unsettled mood, the look of a brain that has fully short-circuited.
In texting, does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Distorted Face emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the distorted face emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
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