🙂‍↕️ Head shaking vertically | Head shaking vertically emoji

The head shaking vertically emoji — Unicode name “head shaking vertically” — belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group on EmojiAll. You will most often meet it in messages about nodding yes, nodding and neutral and skeptical faces. The positivity score for this emoji is 70 out of 100, inside the Positive range.

The usual emoji copy and paste route runs from this page straight into a chat app, and Head shaking vertically keeps its meaning on the way.

1. Head shaking vertically emoji attributes

Symbol: 🙂‍↕️
Name: Head shaking vertically
English name: head shaking vertically
Unicode code point: U+1F642-200D-2195-FE0F
HTML entity: &#x1F642-200D-2195-FE0F;
Decimal: 🙂
Category: Smileys & Emotion›Neutral & Skeptical
Keywords: nodding yes, nodding, neutral and skeptical faces, head, shaking, vertically
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2. Head shaking vertically emoji meaning

The head shaking vertically emoji sits in the Neutral & Skeptical subgroup — one of 16 symbols grouped there under Smileys & Emotion. It signals nodding yes, nodding and neutral and skeptical faces, which is why it works as a shorthand in short messages. Because the meaning is narrow, it rarely causes confusion in mixed-language chats.

In everyday chat, the head shaking vertically (🙂‍↕️) usually appears alongside words about nodding yes, nodding and neutral and skeptical faces. A few words of text make the intent clearer than the symbol on its own.

3. Head shaking vertically emoji sentiment

Positive

70 / 100

Scored 70 out of 100, this emoji sits in the Positive range. It is often used to soften a request without weakening it.

A higher score means a more positive feeling; scores near 50 are neutral.

4. Head shaking vertically emoji examples

1How I feel about the weekend 🙂‍↕️
2Just heard the funniest joke 🙂‍↕️
3Congrats on the new job 🙂‍↕️

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