🙂↕️
What 🙂↕️ means
A softly smiling face nodding up and down — "yes", as a single character. The 🙂↕️ Head Shaking Vertically emoji (Emoji 15.1, September 2023) is agreement, approval, and "go on, I'm listening" rolled into one calm nod.
Like its horizontal sibling, it's a ZWJ trick: 🙂 combined with an up-down arrow, often animated on modern platforms.
How and when to use it
- Effortless agreement: "Pizza for the meeting? 🙂↕️"
- Active-listening energy in long voice-note conversations: "🙂↕️ go on…"
- Run instant chat polls with the pair: 🙂↕️ for yes, 🙂↔️ for no.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-neutral-skeptical
- Codepoints
U+1F642 U+200D U+2195 U+FE0F- Emoji version
- Emoji 15.1
- Shortcodes
:head_shaking_vertically:Slack · Discord- Keywords
- head, nod, shaking, vertically, yes
- How it's built
- Several emojis fused by an invisible joiner — a ZWJ sequence.
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🙂↕️ Head Shaking Vertically or 🤍 White Heart?