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

&#xD83E;&#xDD2D;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-hand

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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