Face with open eyes and hand over mouth Emoji
Smileys
A yellow face featuring wide, startled eyes and a hand covering its mouth. The fingers are slightly spread, capturing the specific moment someone gasps or tries to stifle a sudden reaction.
Usage Context
This emoji is the go-to for reacting to shocking news, accidental spills, or 'oops' moments. It fits perfectly when you want to signal that you’ve just let a secret slip or are genuinely stunned by a turn of events. It is more reactive and frantic than the 🤫 emoji, which implies a deliberate attempt to keep things quiet.
History
Added to the Unicode standard in 2021, this design filled a gap for users needing to express genuine, unfiltered surprise. Before its arrival, people often cobbled together combinations like 😮 and ✋ to mimic the gesture, but this dedicated character made the expression much faster to send during heated text conversations.
Details
Glyph
🫢
Unicode
U+1FAE2
Shortcode
:emoji_u1fae2:
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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