Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 14.0
🫥Dotted Line Face Emoji
Means feeling invisible or checked out, like you want to disappear from a conversation. Sent when someone’s zoning out or just not feeling present.
Also searched as disappear emoji.
It shows a face drawn only in a dotted outline, like it’s fading away, added in 2021 to represent invisibility or emotional distance.
- Unicode
- U+1FAE5
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :dotted_
line_ 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 🫥 Dotted Line Face 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 line emoji, invisible emoji, dotted face emoji, dotted line emoji, line face emoji.
02 — Platforms
Dotted Line Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FAE5 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your dotted line 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
Dotted Line Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :dotted_line_face:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FAE5.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🫥 Dotted Line Face emoji
No picker to hand? The dotted line face can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Dotted Line 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
06 — Combinations
Dotted Line Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around dotted line 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 dotted line face lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🫥 vs 🔯 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Dotted Line Face
Code: U+1FAE5 · added 2021
Shortcode: :dotted_line_face:
Means feeling invisible or checked out, like you want to disappear from a conversation.
Unicode name: Dotted Six-pointed Star
Code: U+1F52F · added 2010
Shortcode: :six_pointed_star:
Generally, it means the Star of David.
12 — History
Where the 🫥 Dotted Line Face emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 14.0, the dotted line face has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 5.
Same character every time — U+1FAE5 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.
Dotted Line Face was approved as U+1FAE5 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.
13 — FAQ