Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 18.0
Cracking Face Emoji
means you are holding it together on the outside while cracking underneath. Sent for stress, burnout, or the moment a brave face finally starts to slip.
It shows a face with cracks running across it, like a mask or a statue about to give way.
- Unicode
- U+1FAEB
- Released
- 2026
- Shortcode
- none yet
- Skin tones
- No
Approved in Emoji 18.0 (2026) and not on phones yet: vendors add new artwork in a system update, usually within a year. Until then it arrives as an empty box. The meanings on this page are the expected ones, drawn from its design and Unicode keywords — nobody can text it yet.
01 — Meaning
What does the Cracking Face emoji mean?
means you are holding it together on the outside while cracking underneath. Sent for stress, burnout, or the moment a brave face finally starts to slip. sits in happy emojis, where it is listed next to everything used the same way. It also turns up in positive emojis, smiley emojis and yellow emojis.People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 7.
People also look for it as cracked face emoji, breaking face emoji.
02 — Platforms
Cracking Face emoji: the designs published so far
No phone draws U+1FAEB yet. These are the designs vendors have published ahead of their system updates, and so far they number 2.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Cracking Face emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The character and its escapes are valid in code today; a chat shortcode will appear once Slack and Discord add the emoji.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FAEB.
04 — How to type
How to type the Cracking Face emoji
The cracking face is not on any keyboard yet. Here is what works in the meantime, and where it will turn up once systems add it.
from this page and paste it. with a system update, not before it. Pasting the character already works.05 — Download
Cracking Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cracking face as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 2 of them.
Emoji PNG library →06 — Combinations
Cracking Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cracking 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
Nobody has the cracking face on a keyboard yet, so these are expected readings rather than observed ones — based on what it shows and how its closest neighbours are used.
usually means she is overwhelmed but still functioning — a long week, too many plans, a conversation that hit harder than she let on. It is honest without being dramatic: she is telling you the smile is doing a lot of work right now. tends to be played for humour: the group project, leg day, the fifth meeting in a row. Underneath the joke it is still an admission that he is near his limit, which is more than most guys will type out in words., you could reply with: “What’s going on?”, “You’ve been carrying a lot”, or “Take the evening off, I’ve got it.”08 — Apps
What means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Apps add a new emoji on their own schedule. Until they do, U+1FAEB travels fine as a character and shows as an empty box where the artwork is missing.
means you are holding it together on the outside while cracking underneath. Sent for stress, burnout, or the moment a brave face finally starts to slip. In comments and captions it is read the same way — the tone comes from what it sits next to. is not in it yet, so a pasted one arrives as an empty box on both sides. can only be pasted, and most members will see a box. or a box depends on their system, and today almost none can draw it.09 — Related
Emojis similar to the Cracking Face emoji
Same family (face-smiling) — often confused with cracking face or used alongside it.
Smileys & Emotion →
Distorted Face
🫨Shaking Face
🫥Dotted Line Face
🥲Smiling Face with Tear
🥹Face Holding Back Tears
🙃Upside-down Face
😬Grimacing Face
😅Grinning Face with Sweat
🙂Slightly Smiling Face
😮💨Face Exhaling
😵💫Face With Spiral Eyes
Collections belongs to — every one of them
is a different way people go looking for it:
10 — History
Where the Cracking Face emoji came from
It arrived with the 18.0 release of the standard in 2026, and phones have not caught up with it yet.
Cracking Face was approved as U+1FAEB and shipped in Emoji 18.0 (2026). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so is redrawn by
Google, OpenMoji.
The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
11 — FAQ
Cracking Face emoji — questions people actually ask
What does the Cracking Face emoji mean?
means you are holding it together on the outside while cracking underneath. Sent for stress, burnout, or the moment a brave face finally starts to slip.What does mean from a girl?
usually means she is overwhelmed but still functioning — a long week, too many plans, a conversation that hit harder than she let on. It is honest without being dramatic: she is telling you the smile is doing a lot of work right now. That is the expected reading: the emoji is not on phones yet, so nobody has texted it for real.What does mean from a guy?
tends to be played for humour: the group project, leg day, the fifth meeting in a row. Underneath the joke it is still an admission that he is near his limit, which is more than most guys will type out in words. That is the expected reading: the emoji is not on phones yet, so nobody has texted it for real.How do you reply to the emoji?
, you could reply with: “What’s going on?”, “You’ve been carrying a lot”, or “Take the evening off, I’ve got it.”What else is the emoji called?
What is the Unicode code for ?
How do I copy and paste the emoji?
goes straight to your clipboard and pastes into Instagram, TikTok, WhatsApp, Discord or any text field. Until phones add Emoji 18.0, most screens will show an empty box where it lands.When will the Cracking Face emoji be on iPhone and Android?
shows as an empty box on most screens. Google and OpenMoji have already published artwork for it.