Try Face with Hand Over Mouth emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Face with Hand Over Mouth emoji mean?
Giggling, gasping or realising you said too much.
A contained giggle, surprised gasp or playful admission. It often suggests that the sender has noticed something funny, awkward or slightly scandalous.
How to use 🤭 naturally
Gossip, polite surprise, playful oops.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 🤭
- 2017
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Face with Hand Over Mouth was first defined as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. One of the steady annual widenings of the vocabulary.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A hand raised to cover a smile, the gesture for stifling a laugh or a reaction you were not meant to have. The eyes stay open and amused above it.
- Today
How its use evolved
Gossip, polite surprise, playful oops.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 🤭 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
I may have read the whole group chat 🤭
You two wore the exact same outfit 🤭
I did not expect that answer 🤭
When to use it
Using 🤭 clearly
Gossip, polite surprise, playful oops. It lands as oops or giggle when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the face with hand over mouth emoji
What does 🤭 mean in a text message?
Giggling, gasping or realising you said too much. A contained giggle, surprised gasp or playful admission. It often suggests that the sender has noticed something funny, awkward or slightly scandalous.
Is 🤭 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are oops, giggle, gasp, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤭 look different on another device?
U+1F92D identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the face with hand over mouth emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 🤭 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the face with hand over mouth emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🤭 as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
🤭 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F92D | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 🤭 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🤭 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F92D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F92D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%AD | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F92D
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- oopsgigglegasp
Put it in a message
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