Head shaking horizontally
Emoji 15.1 ยท Smileys & Emotion ยท :head_shaking_horizontally:
Also known as: head, horizontally, no, shake, shaking
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Head shaking horizontally Means
People reach for ๐โโ๏ธ when they mean head, horizontally, no, shake, shaking. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Head shaking horizontally is one of the smileys & emotion emoji, alongside ๐ค ๐คจ ๐ ๐ ๐ถ and 10 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Head shaking horizontally was added in 2023 as part of Emoji 15.1. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. 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 ๐โโ๏ธ is the 4-code-point sequence U+1F642 U+200D U+2194 U+FE0F, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :head_shaking_horizontally:.
How To Use ๐โโ๏ธ
- 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 ๐โโ๏ธ๐ค๐คจ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :head_shaking_horizontally: and it converts. 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.