Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 14.0
🫡Saluting Face Emoji
Means respect, agreement, or a joking “yes sir” to instructions. Sent to acknowledge a task, show respect for someone’s move, or say goodbye like a soldier.
It shows a face saluting like a soldier, added in 2021 as a playful nod to military respect.
- Unicode
- U+1FAE1
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :saluting_
face: - Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #60 most used
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 🫡 Saluting Face emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 11 of them.
People also look for it as respect emoji, saluting emoji.
02 — Platforms
Saluting Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAE1. 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
Saluting Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :saluting_face:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the saluting face, code point U+1FAE1.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🫡 Saluting Face emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FAE1 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Saluting Face 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
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Saluting Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around saluting 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
One code point, several readings — where the saluting face lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the 🫡 Saluting 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+1FAE1 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.
Saluting Face was approved as U+1FAE1 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.
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