Lying Face Emoji
A long Pinocchio nose, marking a statement as a lie — usually the sender's own.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Lying Face emoji mean?
A long Pinocchio nose, marking a statement as a lie — usually the sender's own.
Comic and self-aware. It almost always marks the sender's own exaggeration; pointed at someone else it is a real accusation dressed as a joke.
How to use 🤥 naturally
Admitting an exaggeration, or flagging someone else's story as unlikely.
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 🤥
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Lying Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A long nose growing out of a small frown, taken straight from Pinocchio. One of the few emoji that depends on a specific children's story to be understood.
- Today
How its use evolved
Admitting an exaggeration, or flagging someone else's story as unlikely.
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 have definitely started it 🤥
Only had one 🤥
Absolutely not still awake 🤥
When to use it
Using 🤥 clearly
Admitting an exaggeration, or flagging someone else's story as unlikely. It lands as lying face emoji 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 lying face emoji
What does 🤥 mean in a text message?
A long Pinocchio nose, marking a statement as a lie — usually the sender's own. Comic and self-aware. It almost always marks the sender's own exaggeration; pointed at someone else it is a real accusation dressed as a joke.
Is 🤥 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are lying face emoji, 🤥 meaning, pinocchio emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤥 look different on another device?
U+1F925 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 lying face 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 lying face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🤥 as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. 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+1F925 | 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 | \1F925 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F925} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%A5 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F925
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- lying face emoji🤥 meaningpinocchio emoji
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