Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 15.0
🫨Shaking Face Emoji
Means total shock or disbelief so strong it feels like the ground shifted. Sent for jaw-dropping news or anything that genuinely stunned someone.
It shows a face vibrating with wide eyes, like it’s shaking from shock, added in 2022 to capture reactions too big for a regular surprised face.
- Unicode
- U+1FAE8
- Released
- 2022
- Shortcode
- :shaking_
face: - Skin tones
- No
Added in Emoji 15.0. On phones older than iOS 17 / Android 14 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🫨 Shaking Face emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 12 of them.
People also look for it as panic emoji, shaking emoji.
02 — Platforms
Shaking Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAE8. 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
Shaking Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :shaking_face:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FAE8.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🫨 Shaking Face emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FAE8 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Shaking Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the shaking 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
Shaking Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around shaking 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 for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
07 — In conversation
What 🫨 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the shaking face and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
08 — Apps
What 🫨 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the shaking face lands changes how it is taken.
09 — Related
Emojis similar to the Shaking Face emoji
Same family (face-neutral-skeptical) — often confused with shaking face or used alongside it.
Smileys & Emotion →
Head Shaking Horizontally
Head Shaking Vertically
😀Grinning Face
😃Grinning Face with Big Eyes
😄Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes
😁Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes
Collections 🫨 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
10 — Difference
🫨 vs 🙂↔️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Shaking Face
Code: U+1FAE8 · added 2022
Shortcode: :shaking_face:
Means total shock or disbelief so strong it feels like the ground shifted.
Unicode name: Head Shaking Horizontally
Code: U+1F642 U+200D U+2194 U+FE0F · added 2023
Shortcode: :head_shaking_horizontally:
Means saying no, disagreeing, or shaking off something without words.
11 — History
Where the 🫨 Shaking Face emoji came from
It arrived with the 15.0 release of the standard, which dates the shaking face to 2022.
Same character every time — U+1FAE8 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.
Shaking Face was approved as U+1FAE8 and shipped in Emoji 15.0 (2022). 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