What does 🫠 Melting Face mean?
A smiling face slowly sliding into a puddle, added to the emoji set in 2021. It captures feelings so overwhelming that you want to dissolve: embarrassment, exhaustion, mounting stress or quiet dread. Taken literally, it suits sweltering heat waves, and it can also mean melting from cuteness or affection. The smile on top often gives it an ironic “I’m fine, totally fine” quality, close in spirit to 🙃.
🫠 Melting Face is an emoji from the Smileys & Emotion category (smiling faces), added in Emoji 14.0 in 2021. People use it in messages about disappear, dissolve, embarrassed, haha, heat and hot.
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🫠 Melting Face on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Melting Face looks on each platform.
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Melting Face emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Melting Face emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🫠 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :melting_face:.
When was the Melting Face emoji added?
🫠 Melting Face was added in Emoji 14.0, released in 2021. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🫠 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Melting Face. The underlying code (U+1FAE0) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.