Headbang Emoji

Unicode has no emoji named headbang, so copy the horns, a nodding head, a typed headbanger or a combo.

Headbang Emoji

🤘Sign of the hornsU+1F918Ready to copy

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Head banging emoji: the nearest 7

Headbanger emoji: the band 10

Head banging emoticon text 9

A headbang, frame by frame 6

Head against a wall 8

Lines for the front row 6

Headbang combos 14

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How it works

The nearest thing to a headbang emoji takes two: Sign of the horns, the only emoji that CLDR, Unicode’s list of search words, files under rock-on, and Head shaking vertically, the only one filed under nod.

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Headbanging, by the dictionary

Wiktionary gives headbang as moving the head vigorously in time to music, and headbanging as a dance tied to hard rock and heavy metal. Wikipedia adds punk, a word CLDR gives to one emoji: Safety pin.

The horns, typed

Wikipedia records three spellings of the sign of the horns as an emoticon: \m/, \../ and |m|. The emoji, U+1F918, came with Unicode 8.0 in June 2015. A typed headbanger is a face between two of the first.

  • Thumb out, and the hand is Love-you gesture, filed under ILY. Wikipedia notes the two are sometimes confused.
  • For one head, send 🙂‍↕️. For a crowd, the combo Mosh pit puts Collision between two hands.

Questions and answers

Is there a head banger emoji?

Not by name. Unicode’s emoji list, version 18.0, names no emoji for headbanging, and CLDR files none under headbang, headbanger or mosh. The combo Headbanger is 🤘🙂‍↕️🤘.

What is the hard rock headbanger emoticon?

\m/(>_<)\m/: a scrunched face between two typed horns. Swap the face for (-_-) or (ò_ó). The faces are this site’s own, and the horns are the spelling Wikipedia records.

How do you type a headbanging emoticon in text?

As frames on one line: (°_°) (._.) (°_°) (._.) reads as a head going up and down. There are slower ones, one with hair and one that goes side to side.

Which emoji is banging your head against a wall?

😖🧱, the combo Head, meet wall. Wiktionary gives the idiom as wasting effort on a futile project. Brick is the only emoji CLDR files under wall.

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Head banging emoji: the nearest 7

  • Dizzy U+1F4AB. Circling stars, in the gloss of the Unicode names list. Filed under dizzy and stars. Emoji 0.6.
  • Face with spiral eyes U+1F635 U+200D U+1F4AB. For after the last song. Filed under dizzy and woozy. Emoji 13.1.
  • Head shaking horizontally U+1F642 U+200D U+2194 U+FE0F. The same head, side to side. Filed under shake and shaking. Emoji 15.1.
  • Head shaking vertically U+1F642 U+200D U+2195 U+FE0F. A head going up and down, drawn with motion lines in Emojipedia’s description. The only emoji filed under nod. Emoji 15.1.
  • Love-you gesture U+1F91F. The horns with the thumb out, which is another sign. Filed under love-you and ILY. Emoji 5.0.
  • Shaking face U+1FAE8. Filed under shaking and vibrate. Emoji 15.0.
  • Sign of the horns U+1F918. Index and little finger up. The only emoji filed under rock-on. Emoji 1.0.
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Headbanger emoji: the band 10

  • Admission tickets U+1F39F U+FE0F. Filed under admission and tickets. Emoji 0.7.
  • Coin U+1FA99. The only emoji filed under metal. CLDR means the material. Emoji 13.0.
  • Drum U+1F941. The only emoji filed under drumsticks. Emoji 3.0.
  • Guitar U+1F3B8. Filed under guitar and instrument. Emoji 0.6.
  • Headphone U+1F3A7. For a headbang in a room of one. Filed under headphone and sound. Emoji 0.6.
  • Microphone U+1F3A4. Filed under mic and sing. Emoji 0.6.
  • Musical notes U+1F3B6. Filed under music and notes. Emoji 0.6.
  • Safety pin U+1F9F7. The only emoji filed under punk. Also filed under rock. Emoji 11.0.
  • Singer U+1F9D1 U+200D U+1F3A4. With its man and woman forms, the only emoji filed under rockstar. Emoji 12.1.
  • Speaker high volume U+1F50A. Filed under loud and volume. Emoji 0.6.

Head banging emoticon text 9

  • \../ The same hand, spelled with two dots
  • \m/ The sign of the horns as an emoticon. Wikipedia lists it with the next two
  • \m/(-_-)\m/ Eyes closed, nodding along
  • \m/(>_<)\m/ Both hands up, eyes screwed shut
  • ~\m/(>_<)\m/~ With hair flying
  • \m/(>o<)\m/ Shouting the chorus
  • \m/(ò_ó)\m/ Brows down, horns up
  • \m/(x_x)\m/ After the encore
  • |m| The same hand, spelled with two bars

A headbang, frame by frame 6

  • ('-') (._.) (,_,) (._.) ('-') A slow one: the eyes sink and come back
  • (>_< ) ( >_<) (>_< ) Side to side
  • (°_°) (._.) (°_°) (._.) Up, down, up, down
  • ~(>_<)~ -(>_<)- ~(>_<)~ Hair up, hair flat, hair up
  • \m/(°_°)\m/ \m/(._.)\m/ The same two frames, with horns
  • \(>o<)/ _(._.)_ \(>o<)/ Arms up on the beat, down between

Head against a wall 8

  • (-_-) (_ _) (-_-) (_ _) Headdesk, twice: the face, then the top of the head
  • (>_<)| (>_<)| (>_<)| Three goes at the same wall
  • Brick U+1F9F1. The only emoji filed under wall. Emoji 11.0.
  • Collision U+1F4A5. Filed under boom and collide. Emoji 0.6.
  • Confounded face U+1F616. Filed under frustrated and cringe. Emoji 0.6.
  • Face with diagonal mouth U+1FAE4. The only emoji filed under frustration. Emoji 14.0.
  • Person facepalming U+1F926. Filed under exasperation and again. Emoji 3.0.
  • Red exclamation mark U+2757. The only bang CLDR has is this kind. Filed under bang and exclamation. Emoji 0.6.

Lines for the front row 6

  • air guitar, both hands An imaginary guitar, by Wiktionary’s definition, played anyway.
  • front row or nothing For buying the tickets.
  • horns up For the first chord.
  • one more song For when the lights come on.
  • play it louder For a quiet speaker.
  • rock on A cheer, and to party to music, as Wiktionary has it.

Headbang combos 14

  • After the gig Sign of the horns, then face with spiral eyes.
  • Air guitar Dashing away, then guitar.
  • At the barrier Admission tickets, then sign of the horns, then singer.
  • Car concert Automobile, then musical notes, then head shaking vertically.
  • Drum solo Drum, then head shaking vertically.
  • Head, meet wall Confounded face, then brick.
  • Headbang for one Headphone, then head shaking vertically.
  • Headbanger Sign of the horns, then head shaking vertically, then sign of the horns.
  • Headdesk Confounded face, then collision, then desktop computer.
  • Horns up, head down Sign of the horns, then head shaking vertically.
  • Mosh pit Sign of the horns, then collision, then sign of the horns.
  • Side to side headbang Head shaking horizontally, then musical notes.
  • Speakers up Speaker high volume, then sign of the horns.
  • Whole band, heads down Guitar, then drum, then microphone, then head shaking vertically.

How this list was compiled: Built on 2026-10-09 from sources read that day. The emoji, their names, code points and Emoji version numbers are from the Unicode emoji list, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file. Search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml and https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotationsDerived/en.xml). Text characters are named in UnicodeData.txt 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt); the gloss circling stars is from the Unicode names list. Unicode has no emoji named headbang: every name in that list and every CLDR search word was searched for headbang, headbanger and mosh, and none was found. The first two groups follow the words CLDR does have: rock-on, nod, shaking, dizzy, rockstar, drumsticks, loud and punk. Headbanging as shaking the head in time to music, common in rock, punk and heavy metal, is as Wiktionary and Wikipedia have it (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/headbang, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/headbanging, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headbanging, CC BY-SA 4.0), restated. How the sign of the horns is formed, its three spellings as an emoticon, its arrival in Unicode 8.0 in June 2015 and its mix-up with the ILY sign are from Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sign_of_the_horns). Motion lines, for Head shaking vertically, is how Emojipedia describes the drawing (https://emojipedia.org/head-shaking-vertically). Rock on, air guitar, mosh pit, headdesk and banging one’s head against a brick wall are as Wiktionary defines them (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/rock_on, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/air_guitar, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mosh_pit, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/headdesk, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bang_one%27s_head_against_a_brick_wall). The typed headbangers put those typed horns beside faces of this site’s own; the frames, the lines, the combos and their names are this site’s own work, and nobody has standardized them. Licence: own work: the selection, the combo names, the text drawings and the notes are this site's own. Emoji names, code points and search words are Unicode and CLDR data, used under the Unicode License v3 (https://www.unicode.org/license.txt). Facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary are restated in this site's own words and credited in the source line.

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