Try Head Shaking Horizontally emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Head Shaking Horizontally emoji mean?
A face shaking side to side, the emoji for no.
A clear, quiet no. It is gentler than ❌ and friendlier than 🙅, since the face is still smiling.
How to use 🙂↔️ naturally
Saying no, disagreeing or refusing without typing it. The nodding version 🙂↕️ means yes.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 🙂↔️
- 2023
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Head Shaking Horizontally was first defined as emoji in Emoji 15.1, dated 2023. Almost entirely sequences, built from characters already encoded.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2023 with a nodding partner, both built from the slightly smiling face and a direction arrow. Older phones show the face and the arrow side by side, which still gets the idea across.
- Today
How its use evolved
Saying no, disagreeing or refusing without typing it. The nodding version 🙂↕️ means yes.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🙂↔️ in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Am I going out tonight 🙂↔️
Pineapple on pizza 🙂↔️
Not doing that again 🙂↔️
When to use it
Using 🙂↔️ clearly
Saying no, disagreeing or refusing without typing it. The nodding version 🙂↕️ means yes. It lands as shaking head emoji or no emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the head shaking horizontally emoji
What does 🙂↔️ mean in a text message?
A face shaking side to side, the emoji for no. A clear, quiet no. It is gentler than ❌ and friendlier than 🙅, since the face is still smiling.
Is 🙂↔️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are shaking head emoji, no emoji, 🙂↔️ meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🙂↔️ look different on another device?
U+1F642 U+200D U+2194 U+FE0F identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the head shaking horizontally emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🙂↔️ is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the head shaking horizontally emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🙂↔️ as emoji in Emoji 15.1, dated 2023. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🙂↔️ in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F642 U+200D U+2194 U+FE0F | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🙂‍↔️ | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🙂‍↔️ | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F642 \200D \2194 \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F642}\u{200D}\u{2194}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%99%82%E2%80%8D%E2%86%94%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F642 U+200D U+2194 U+FE0F
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- shaking head emojino emoji🙂↔️ meaning
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