U+1FAEA
Distorted Face
About
Distorted face, a single Unicode character. Part of the Smileys & Emotion group, face concerned subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 17.0, released in 2025.
Platform renderings
6 platforms shown using your device's own emoji font. Their artwork is proprietary and this site does not redistribute it.
Timeline
2016 — 2026Showing 20 of 20 events through 2026
- 2016First render
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- 2022First render
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- 2023First render
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- 2024Redesign
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- 2024Redesign
Date it reached devices. AOSP source dropped 2024-09-03.
- 2024First render
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- 2025Redesign

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- 2025Redesign
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- 2025First render

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- 2025Unicode
Added in Emoji 17.0
Introduced in Emoji 17.0
- 2025First render

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- 2026First render

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- 2026First render

First appeared on Noto Animated Emoji
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- 2026Redesign
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- 2026Redesign

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- 2026Redesign

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- 2026First render

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Encodings
- UTF-8
F0 9F AB AA- UTF-8 escaped
\xF0\x9F\xAB\xAA- UTF-16
D83E DEEA- UTF-32
0001FAEA- HTML decimal
🫪- HTML hex
🫪- CSS
\01FAEA- JavaScript
\u{1FAEA}- JS surrogateFor pre-ES2015 targets
\uD83E\uDEEA- Python
\U0001FAEA- URL encoded
%F0%9F%AB%AA- Base64
8J+rqg==
Unicode proposals
The document submitted to the Unicode Consortium that introduced this character.
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Frequently asked questions
- What does mean?
- Distorted face, a single Unicode character. Part of the Smileys & Emotion group, face concerned subgroup. Approved as part of Emoji 17.0, released in 2025. It is commonly tagged distorted face, anxiety, bloated, panic, shocked and surprised.
- What is the Unicode code point for ?
- Distorted face is encoded as the single code point U+1FAEA.
- When was added to Unicode?
- was approved as part of Emoji 17.0 and released in 2025, under Unicode 17.0.
- Why does look different on my phone?
- Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point, so changes depending on where you see it. This page compares 19 renderings, including Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp.
- What is called in other languages?
- Unicode's CLDR publishes a name for it in 9 other languages, including وجه بأعين زائعة in Arabic, verzerrtes Gesicht in German and cara deformada in Spanish.
- What category is in?
- belongs to Unicode's Smileys & Emotion group, in the face concerned subgroup.