🙂‍↔️

Gesture: horizontal head shake

🙂‍↔️ Head shaking horizontally

🙂‍↔️

🙂‍↔️ Emoji meaning

Thanks, but nah! A gentle no, disbelief, or playful teasing.

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🙂‍↔️ Meaning

Slightly smiling face gently shaking its head side to side. Usually a polite “no”—mild rejection, doubt, disbelief, or a “rather not.” Also hints at playful irony or a casual “nope.” Feels friendly but reserved.

Examples

No thanks! 🙂‍↔️
Are you serious? 🙂‍↔️
Thanks, but not today. 🙂‍↔️

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Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Head shaking horizontally” was approved as part of Unicode 15.1 in 2023 and added to Emoji 15.1 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ head + horizontally + shaking

Keywords removed

- head shaking horizontally

In the release of Emoji 15.1 and Unicode 15.1 in 2023 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ head shaking horizontally + no + shake

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