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Meaning & usage
What does the Pleading Face emoji mean?
Big watery eyes used to beg or to look adorably helpless.
Soft, vulnerable and deliberately cute. It intensifies a request or emotional reaction, sometimes sincerely and sometimes as playful exaggeration.
How to use 🥺 naturally
Asking for favours, or reacting to something very cute.
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 🥺
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Pleading Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Enlarged, glossy eyes with drawn-together eyebrows, taken from the shoujo manga convention for a character about to cry. Added in 2018 and adopted almost immediately for begging.
- Today
How its use evolved
Asking for favours, or reacting to something very cute.
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.
Can we get dessert too? 🥺
Please send one more photo of the puppy 🥺
That tiny sweater is so cute 🥺
When to use it
Using 🥺 clearly
Asking for favours, or reacting to something very cute. It lands as puppy eyes or beg 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 pleading face emoji
What does 🥺 mean in a text message?
Big watery eyes used to beg or to look adorably helpless. Soft, vulnerable and deliberately cute. It intensifies a request or emotional reaction, sometimes sincerely and sometimes as playful exaggeration.
Is 🥺 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are puppy eyes, beg, cute, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥺 look different on another device?
U+1F97A 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 pleading 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 pleading face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥺 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. 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.
Pleading Face or Loudly Crying Face?
😭 reacts to something that already happened. 🥺 is asking for something, and expects an answer.
Pleading Face or Smiling Face with Tear?
🥲 is grateful and bittersweet. 🥺 is a request, which makes it much more demanding of the reader.
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+1F97A | 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 | \1F97A | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F97A} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%BA | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F97A
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- puppy eyesbegcute
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