🤭 "face with hand over mouth" emoji (copy and paste)

A yellow face with a hand covering its mouth.

Meaning of the face with hand over mouth Emoji

A yellow face with a hand covering its mouth. Displays most often with smiling eyes and/or blushing cheeks, suggesting coy laughter or embarrassment, as if cheekily saying Oops! Prior to the release of iOS 15.4 in March 2022, Apple's design featured simple, open eyes, suggesting someone gasping Oh my! in serious surprise, shock, concern, or apology. This same update assigned Apple's original 🤭 design to Emoji 14.0's new face with open eyes and hand over mouth emoji. May be used to similar effect as speak-no-evil monkey. See also zipper-mouth face. Joins hugging face, thinking face, and shushing face as one of the few smileys featuring hands. Facebook's design previously featured open eyes, though an earlier version had smiling eyes like those in the vendor's current design. Face with Hand Over Mouth was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 under the name "Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Hand Covering Mouth" and added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017.

Usage Examples

• I can't believe I said that, 🤭.
• She covered her mouth and giggled, 🤭, after the joke.
• Oops, I forgot to mute myself, 🤭.
• He looked at me with a 🤭 when I tripped.
• Seeing the surprise party, she gasped, 🤭.

Alternative Names

face with hand over mouth, smiling face with smiling eyes and hand covering mouth

Related Word Associations

laughter, embarrassment, surprise, shock, apology

Appearance in OpenMoji

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PNG format:

• PNG (72x72)
• PNG (618x618)

SVG format:

• SVG (vector)

Unicode Data

Code Point(s):

U+1F92D

Version:

Emoji E5.0

Developer Codes

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