Face with hand over mouth Emoji
Smileys
A yellow face with smiling eyes and a hand gently covering its mouth. The eyes are curved to show amusement, suggesting the person is suppressing a giggle or trying to stay quiet.
Usage Context
This emoji is the go-to for reacting to a juicy piece of gossip, a funny mistake, or a situation where laughing out loud would be considered rude. It carries a playful, slightly mischievous energy, often signaling that you're in on a joke or reacting to something unexpected. It pairs perfectly with 🤫 when keeping a secret or 😆 when the laughter can no longer be contained.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0, this face was designed to bridge the gap between simple laughing emojis and the need for a more specific, polite expression of amusement that accounts for social etiquette or playful embarrassment.
Details
Glyph
🤭
Unicode
U+1F92D
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f92d:
HTML Entity
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Specifications
Vendor Google
Category Smileys
Subcategory face-hand
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
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