Distorted face
Emoji 17.0 ยท Smileys & Emotion
Also known as: anxiety, bloated, panic, shocked, surprised, vulnerable
How it looks elsewhere
๐ซช Your device
Twemoji 
Noto ๐ซช Fluent
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Distorted face Means
People reach for ๐ซช when they mean anxiety, bloated, panic, shocked, surprised and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Distorted face is one of the smileys & emotion emoji, alongside ๐ ๐ซค ๐ ๐ โน๏ธ and 21 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Distorted face was added in 2025 as part of Emoji 17.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, OpenMoji, but not yet in Microsoft's Fluent. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ซช is the single code point U+1FAEA.
How To Use ๐ซช
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ซช๐๐ซค and copy it all at once.
- Type it: search for it in your deviceโs emoji picker by name. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.