• used for the West Wind in some Mahjong annotation
The neutral face is the internet’s deep sigh in emoji form—calm, flat, and magnificently unimpressed. It says 'not mad, not glad, just here' when a take is mid, a joke doesn’t land, or the group chat derails into chaos. People drop it as a deadpan reply, a placeholder when words feel unnecessary, or to serve passive-aggressive realness without typing a single extra letter. In meme posts, it captions moments like listening to a 12-minute story with no point, or reading 'we need to talk' followed by total silence.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a round yellow face with a soft top-to-bottom gradient, two small open circular eyes, and a perfectly straight horizontal mouth—no eyebrows, no tilt, just front-facing neutrality. That crisp, flat line is the whole mood: a blank TV screen after the drama ends. Used sarcastically to deflate overhype, awkwardly after a flirty text whiffs, or as a polite 'I acknowledge this information' in corporate Slacks. It’s the ultimate 'seen it, didn’t feel it' reaction—minimal effort, maximum clarity.
A neutral face with open eyes and straight-lined mouth. Often described as the master of all poker players, this emoji is impossible to read. Not to be confused with the Expressionless Face emoji, this emoji is very much engaged, present and above all, extremely clever. Beware!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 203 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture | ![]() |
| Google Android Picture | ![]() |
| Google Hangouts Picture | ![]() |
| Twitter.com Picture | ![]() |
| LG Emoji Picture | ![]() |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | ![]() |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :neutral_face: |
| Keywords | Neutral, Objective, Impartial, Blank |
| Unicode Category | Emoticons |
| Unicode Range | 1F600–1F64F |
| Unicode Subcategory | Faces |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 5 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 😐 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 😐 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 😐 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 😐 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f610 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F610 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128528 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x90 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 98 90 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 230 220 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE10 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde10 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56848 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F610 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F610 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128528 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F610" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x98\x90" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE10" |