Melting Face

Unicode lists 🫠 Melting Face among the smiling faces in the Smileys & Emotion group. It usually appears in messages about disappear, dissolve, embarrassed and face. The keyword list continues with haha, heat, hot and liquid.

You can drop 🫠 into chats, social posts, headlines or a bio. On SmileyZone it is filed under Smileys. Added in 2021 with Emoji 14.0, it displays correctly on every up-to-date system. Its code point is U+1FAE0.

• 🫠 on its own already flags the topic: disappear.
• Fits messages about disappear, dissolve, embarrassed and face.
• Often seen near 🙂 Slightly Smiling Face, 😉 Winking Face and 🙃 Upside-Down Face.

The melting face arrived in 2021 and struck a nerve: it covers being overwhelmed, excruciating situations and heat all at once – “I am dissolving”.

It belongs to a wave of newer emoji that depict not an emotion in the classical sense but a state. Older faces show joy or anger; 🫠 shows what it feels like when none of those apply any more.

• 🫠😇 – Melting Face and Smiling Face with Halo
• 🫠😁 – Melting Face with Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes
• 🫠🤣 – Melting Face plus Rolling on the Floor Laughing
• 🫠😆 – Melting Face and Grinning Squinting Face
• 🫠😄 – Melting Face with Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes
• 🫠😅 – Melting Face plus Grinning Face with Sweat
• 🫠😊 – Melting Face and Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes
• 🫠🙂 – Melting Face with Slightly Smiling Face

Easy to mix up with 🙂 Slightly Smiling Face, 😉 Winking Face or 🙃 Upside-Down Face. They sit in the same Unicode subgroup and look similar at small sizes, so it is worth checking the name before sending.