😱 Meaning – Face Screaming in Fear Emoji

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This icon depicts a blue-tinted face with white, hollowed out eyes, mouth agape, and two hands pressed against its cheeks, “Home Alone” style. This emoji could mean frightened, very shocked, or in disbelief. Screaming Emoji could be used upon hearing extremely shocking, or scary news, and is often used in multiple succession to emphasize the level of shock. This is a frequently used icon with mostly negative associations.

The Face Screaming in Fear Emoji appeared in 2010, and now is mainly known as the Screaming Emoji, but also may be reffered as the Scared Emoji. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Scream Face.

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Screaming Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F631
Unicode name: Face Screaming in Fear
Category: Smileys & People / Negative Faces
Keywords: face, fear, sad
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F631
Decimal HTML Entity: 😱
Hex HTML Entity: 😱
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDE31
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Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

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🌐 Screaming Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	vor Angst schreiendes Gesicht	Angst, Gesicht, schreien
Français	visage qui hurle de peur	cri, effrayé, peur, visage
Русский	в ужасе	испуг, крик, страх, ужас
Español	cara gritando de miedo	asustado, cara, miedo, pánico
Italiano	faccina terrorizzata	faccina, grido di paura, paura, terrorizzata
Português	rosto gritando de medo	assustado, gritando de medo, medo, rosto, temeroso
Polski	twarz krzycząca ze strachu	krzycząca buźka

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How to type Face Screaming in Fear Emoji

There are number of methods to type Screaming Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 😱 emoji

It's very easy to get Face Screaming in Fear Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 😱 meaning and look at 😱 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

😱 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.