Shushing face Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face with wide eyes and a single finger pressed firmly against pursed lips. It displays a clear gesture of asking for quiet or keeping a secret.

Usage Context

Used to signal that it is time to be silent, to tell someone to lower their voice, or to indicate that information being shared is confidential. It acts as a digital version of the classic 'shh' gesture, often serving as a playful way to let someone know they have revealed too much, similar to the 🤐 zipped-mouth face.

History

This emoji was added to the Unicode standard in 2017 as part of Emoji 5.0. It emerged during a period when messaging platforms were expanding their repertoire of non-verbal cues to help users mimic face-to-face body language in text-based chats.

Details

Glyph

🤫

Unicode

U+1F92B

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f92b:

HTML Entity

&#xD83E;&#xDD2B;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-hand

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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