U+1FAE1 "🫡" Saluting Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🫡
U+1FAE1 "🫡" Saluting Face is a yellow face with a neutral expression and a hand raised to its brow in a military style salute, officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 as part of Emoji 14.0. It is commonly used to convey respect, acknowledgment, gratitude, or playful irony, such as when agreeing to a request or recognizing a clever point in an online discussion. The emoji grew popular in internet culture for expressing a mix of seriousness and humor, adapting the formal gesture for casual digital communication.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FAE1 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Saluting Face |
| Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🫡 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🫡 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xAB 0xA1 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDEE1 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FAE1 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udee1 |