Face with Raised Eyebrow Emoji
One eyebrow up — scepticism, suspicion or a request for clarification.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Face with Raised Eyebrow emoji mean?
One eyebrow up — scepticism, suspicion or a request for clarification.
Sceptical rather than hostile. It questions a claim without accusing anyone, which makes it a gentler doubt than the side-eye.
How to use 🤨 naturally
Doubtful replies, questionable claims and reacting to something that does not add up.
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 Raised Eyebrow 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
One eyebrow lifted, one flat, the single most legible face in the set. It signals scepticism about the sentence before it without contradicting anything.
- Today
How its use evolved
Doubtful replies, questionable claims and reacting to something that does not add up.
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.
Five stars from an account made today 🤨
You said the same thing last week 🤨
Free, with no conditions at all? 🤨
When to use it
Using 🤨 clearly
Doubtful replies, questionable claims and reacting to something that does not add up. It lands as face with raised eyebrow or 🤨 meaning 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 raised eyebrow emoji
What does 🤨 mean in a text message?
One eyebrow up — scepticism, suspicion or a request for clarification. Sceptical rather than hostile. It questions a claim without accusing anyone, which makes it a gentler doubt than the side-eye.
Is 🤨 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are face with raised eyebrow, 🤨 meaning, suspicious emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤨 look different on another device?
U+1F928 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 raised eyebrow 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 raised eyebrow 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.
Easily confused
🤨 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Face with Raised Eyebrow or Confused Face?
😕 does not understand. 🤨 understands perfectly and does not believe you, which is a very different reply.
Face with Raised Eyebrow or Unamused Face?
😒 has already judged. 🤨 is still asking, so it leaves the other person room to explain.
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+1F928 | 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 | \1F928 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F928} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%A8 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F928
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- face with raised eyebrow🤨 meaningsuspicious emoji
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