🫠️ Melting face emoji

What is 🫠️ called?

🫠️ is called the Melting face emoji.

What does 🫠️ mean?

The melting face emoji expresses extreme heat, embarrassment, overwhelm, or the feeling of slowly falling apart while trying to smile. It often gives a humorous visual form to “I am melting” or “I cannot cope.”

Weather messages use it literally for a hot day, while social messages use it for an awkward mistake, exhaustion, stress, or wanting to disappear. The slight smile links it to 🙂 Slightly smiling face, but the puddle makes the emotional strain visible.

It can therefore combine two tones at once: an outwardly calm reaction and an inward sense of dissolving.

Other meanings

It may represent melting ice, liquid, climate heat, fatigue, burnout, or being emotionally overwhelmed. After an embarrassing memory, it can mean wishing to sink into the floor or vanish.

Example Usage

It is 35 degrees in the shade today 🫠

I waved back before realising they were greeting someone behind me 🫠

More details

Its Unicode code point is U+1FAE0, and it was introduced in Emoji 14.0. The melting outline distinguishes it from 🥵 Hot face, which shows heat through a red face, sweat, and a hanging tongue.

Related emoji

Crazy emojis

• 🙃️ Upside-down face
• 🤪️ Zany face
• 🙄️ Face with rolling eyes
• 🫨️ Shaking face

Embarrassed emojis

• 🤭️ Face with hand over mouth
• 🫢️ Face with open eyes and hand over mouth
• 🫣️ Face with peeking eye
• 😳️ Flushed face

Hot emojis

• 🥵️ Hot face

Tired emojis

• 😑️ Expressionless face
• 😮‍💨 Face exhaling
• 😌️ Relieved face
• 😔️ Pensive face

Visual description

A yellow face with small eyes and a slight smile appears to slump downward into a puddle. The lower outline is uneven and liquid, and part of the mouth is pulled into the melting edge.

Some platforms keep the face upright while others give it a slight tilt. The size of the puddle and the amount of distortion vary between designs.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.