Face with open mouth Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face featuring wide, open eyes and a circular, gaping mouth. It captures a moment of genuine shock, sudden realization, or being caught off guard.

Usage Context

This emoji serves as a digital reaction to news, unexpected reveals, or impressive feats. It is the visual equivalent of an audible gasp. Users often swap it for 😲 when they want to convey a slightly more intense level of disbelief or 😯 for a milder, more contemplative surprise.

History

Included in Unicode 6.1 in 2012, this face emerged during the explosion of early mobile messaging apps. It quickly became a shorthand for the common internet slang ':O', which had been used in chat rooms and forums for over a decade to denote a shocked expression.

Details

Glyph

😮

Unicode

U+1F62E

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f62e:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE2E;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-concerned

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.

Apache 2.0 SIL OFL 1.1 Noto Repository