Head Shaking Horizontally

The head-shaking-horizontally icon represents a person shaking their head horizontally. It symbolizes disagreement, rejection, or disapproval. This icon is part of the Twemoji library, which provides a wide range of emojis for use in digital communication. The head shaking emoji is often used to convey a sense of skepticism, distrust, or disappointment.

In real-world applications, this icon may appear in software or platforms that facilitate communication, feedback, or ratings, such as social media, messaging apps, or review websites. For instance, it could be used to represent a negative reaction, a disagreement, or a disapproval.

From a UX perspective, this icon communicates a sense of negativity or disapproval. It helps users understand that the content or functionality is not approved or accepted. This icon can be used to facilitate navigation and understanding of complex interactions or feedback.

Head Shaking Horizontally is one of 4,169 icons in Twitter Emoji, made by Twitter and released under CC BY 4.0. It is drawn on a 36 × 36 grid.

Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds HeadShakingHorizontallyIcon to components/icons/twemoji-head-shaking-horizontally.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.

Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed HeadShakingHorizontallyIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.

Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.

With Pro, the shadcn.io MCP server lets Claude Code, Cursor or any MCP client find the Head Shaking Horizontally icon, or any of 4,169 Twitter Emoji icons, and install it from a prompt.

It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.

Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 36 × 36 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.

Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.

Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Head Shaking Horizontally", so screen readers say what it does.

Yes. HeadShakingHorizontallyIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <HeadShakingHorizontallyIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.

Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.

Yes, with credit: CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author (Twitter) where you use the icons. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.

Yes. CC BY 4.0 asks you to credit the author where you use the icons, for example "Icons by Twitter, CC BY 4.0" on an about or credits page.

Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.

1 other library draws an icon called Head Shaking Horizontally. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.

Its tags are communication, emoji, expression, emotion, feedback and reaction. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Head Shaking Horizontally in another set.

Twitter Emoji draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Head Shaking Horizontally's siblings in it.