Face with symbols on mouth Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face with a red, angry expression and a black bar containing white symbols covering its mouth. The icons representing the illegible profanity act as a visual stand-in for vulgar language.

Usage Context

This emoji is the digital equivalent of a character shouting a string of unprintable swear words. It is widely used to express extreme frustration, rage, or indignation when a standard angry face like 😡 just isn't intense enough to convey your level of annoyance.

History

The use of symbols like @, #, $, and % to represent censored cursing in comics is known as a 'grawlix,' a term coined by cartoonist Mort Walker in 1964. This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2017 to bring this classic print media trope into modern text-based communication.

Details

Glyph

🤬

Unicode

U+1F92C

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f92c:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD2C;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-negative

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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