Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 14.0
🫠Melting Face Emoji
Means embarrassment, awkwardness, or being overwhelmed by heat or a moment that you’re basically dissolving. The modern upgrade to a cringe-and-die reaction.
Also searched as disappear emoji.
It shows a smiley face literally melting into a puddle, added in 2021 to capture that feeling of dying from secondhand embarrassment or unbearable heat.
- Unicode
- U+1FAE0
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :melting_
face: - Skin tones
- No
Added in Emoji 14.0. On phones older than iOS 16 / Android 13 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🫠 Melting Face emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 13.
People also look for it as melt face emoji, disappear emoji, dissolve emoji, melting emoji, melt emoji, face melting emoji.
02 — Platforms
Melting Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FAE0 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your melting face looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Melting Face 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 :melting_face:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FAE0.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🫠 Melting Face emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Melting Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the melting face 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
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Melting Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around melting face 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
What 🫠 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1FAE0, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — History
Where the 🫠 Melting Face emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1FAE0 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.
Melting Face was approved as U+1FAE0 and shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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