Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
😱Face Screaming in Fear Emoji
Basically, it means someone is incredibly scared, shocked, or surprised. It’s a visual way to show you’re feeling a strong emotion.
The 😱 emoji shows a face with a huge, open mouth and wide eyes, like someone is screaming out of pure terror.
- Unicode
- U+1F631
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :scream:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #53 most used
01 — Meaning
What does the 😱 Face Screaming in Fear emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as fear emoji, screaming emoji, fearful face emoji, scream emoji, fearful emoji.
02 — Platforms
Face Screaming in Fear emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F631. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Face Screaming in Fear emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :scream:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the face screaming in fear, code point U+1F631.
04 — How to type
How to type the 😱 Face Screaming in Fear emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Face Screaming in Fear emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Face Screaming in Fear emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around face screaming in fear for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 😱, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 😱 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the face screaming in fear and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 😱 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F631, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — History
Where the 😱 Face Screaming in Fear emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F631 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
😱 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E757, KDDI au E5C5, SoftBank E107.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Face Screaming in Fear was approved as U+1F631 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 😱 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
12 — FAQ