U+1FAEA "🫪" Distorted Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🫪
U+1FAEA "🫪" Distorted Face is a recent addition to the Unicode Standard, part of the Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A range, and depicts a single stylized face with wavy, asymmetrical, or warped features that convey a sense of distortion, confusion, or disorientation. This character was introduced in Unicode version 15.0 in 2022 and is typically used in digital communication to express a state of being overwhelmed, dizzy, weirded out, or mentally scrambled. Its design, with uneven eyes and a contorted outline, evokes the visual language of cartoons or memes where physical distortion mirrors emotional instability, making it a playful yet potent tool for conveying nuanced feelings of perplexity or "brain fog" in text.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FAEA |
| Version Added | 17.0 |
| Name | Distorted 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 0xAA |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDEEA |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FAEA |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udeea |