Face Without Mouth Emoji
A face with no mouth at all: speechless, or deliberately declining to comment.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Face Without Mouth emoji mean?
A face with no mouth at all: speechless, or deliberately declining to comment.
Blank on purpose. Removing the mouth entirely reads as being lost for words, and it can feel colder than a neutral face because there is nothing to interpret.
How to use 😶 naturally
Reacting to something you have no words for, or making the silence itself the reply.
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 😶
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Face Without Mouth was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Eyes with nothing beneath them. Removing a feature entirely is unusual in this set, and it is what makes the face speechless rather than silent.
- Today
How its use evolved
Reacting to something you have no words for, or making the silence itself the reply.
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 genuinely have nothing to add 😶
Read the email twice 😶
Well. That happened 😶
When to use it
Using 😶 clearly
Reacting to something you have no words for, or making the silence itself the reply. It lands as face without mouth 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 without mouth emoji
What does 😶 mean in a text message?
A face with no mouth at all: speechless, or deliberately declining to comment. Blank on purpose. Removing the mouth entirely reads as being lost for words, and it can feel colder than a neutral face because there is nothing to interpret.
Is 😶 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are face without mouth, 😶 meaning, speechless emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😶 look different on another device?
U+1F636 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 without 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 without mouth emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 😶 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. 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 Without Mouth or Neutral Face?
😐 has a mouth and is choosing not to use it. 😶 has none at all, which reads as being unable to respond rather than declining to.
Face Without Mouth or Expressionless Face?
😑 closes the eyes as well, adding a note of endurance. 😶 keeps them open, which is closer to shock.
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+1F636 | 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 | \1F636 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F636} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%B6 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F636
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- face without mouth😶 meaningspeechless emoji
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