U+1FAE0 · emoji since 2021
The melting face dissolves into the floor with a smile, and somehow that captures everything: heat, embarrassment, exhaustion, and quietly losing it while staying polite.
It became an instant favorite for awkward moments you simply endure. The smile stays, the rest melts.
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 Melting Face emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the melting 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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