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 Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-concerned

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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