Saluting Face Emoji
A military-style salute, used online to accept a task with mock formality.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Saluting Face emoji mean?
A military-style salute, used online to accept a task with mock formality.
Dry and obliging. Online it accepts an instruction with mock formality, and it has become one of the most common ways to acknowledge a request without words.
How to use 🫡 naturally
Acknowledging instructions, agreeing to do something and signing off from a thread.
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 🫡
- 2021
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Saluting Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 14.0, dated 2021. A release whose additions were quickly adopted as reactions.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A flat hand at the brow. Added in 2021 and adopted online for acknowledgement or respect well outside any military meaning.
- Today
How its use evolved
Acknowledging instructions, agreeing to do something and signing off from a thread.
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.
Understood, on it 🫡
Copy that, sending now 🫡
Signing off for the week 🫡
When to use it
Using 🫡 clearly
Acknowledging instructions, agreeing to do something and signing off from a thread. It lands as saluting face emoji or 🫡 meaning 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 saluting face emoji
What does 🫡 mean in a text message?
A military-style salute, used online to accept a task with mock formality. Dry and obliging. Online it accepts an instruction with mock formality, and it has become one of the most common ways to acknowledge a request without words.
Is 🫡 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are saluting face emoji, 🫡 meaning, salute emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🫡 look different on another device?
U+1FAE1 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 saluting face 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 saluting face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🫡 as emoji in Emoji 14.0, dated 2021. 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+1FAE1 | 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 | \1FAE1 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAE1} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%AB%A1 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1FAE1
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- saluting face emoji🫡 meaningsalute emoji
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