Cracking face
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- Shortcode
:cracking_face:- Unicode
U+1FAEB- HTML
🫫- CSS
\1FAEB- JavaScript
"\u{1FAEB}"- URL
%F0%9F%AB%AB
What ๐ซซ means
A face with cracks running across it, as if a hard surface is breaking apart. Its intended sense is strain and change: composure about to give way, a mask slipping, or a truer self breaking through.
It is one of the newest faces, so shared habits are still forming. Expect it where someone is close to a breaking point, and in posts about resilience or dropping a brave front.
Many phones and computers do not support it yet, so readers may see an empty box instead.
Facts
Cracking face ๐ซซ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face smiling. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 18.0, released in 2026. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :cracking_face:. People also look for it with words like โbreakingโ, โcrumblingโ, โmaskingโ, or โresilienceโ.
Timeline
- 2026Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 18.0)
Design history
Google (Noto)
2026
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.