Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 5.0
🤯Exploding Head Emoji
Basically, it means something is so shocking or amazing that it feels like your mind is exploding. It's a really strong way to show you're surprised or overwhelmed.
The 🤯 emoji, also called “exploding head,” shows a head with lines shooting out of it.
- Unicode
- U+1F92F
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :exploding_
head: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🤯 Exploding Head emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 8.
People also look for it as mind blown emoji, head exploding emoji, head explode emoji.
02 — Platforms
Exploding Head emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F92F. 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
Exploding Head emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :exploding_head:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F92F.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🤯 Exploding Head emoji
No picker to hand? The exploding head can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Exploding Head emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the exploding head as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Exploding Head emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around exploding head 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
What 🤯 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the exploding head lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the 🤯 Exploding Head emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F92F 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.
Exploding Head was approved as U+1F92F and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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