😬 "grimacing face" emoji (copy and paste)
grimacing face
A yellow face with simple open eyes showing clenched teeth, representing negative or tense emotions.
Meaning of the grimacing face Emoji
The Grimacing Face emoji depicts a yellow face with simple open eyes and clenched teeth, often used to convey a range of negative or tense emotions such as nervousness, embarrassment, or awkwardness, for example, "Eek!". Its appearance has historically varied across platforms, with Apple's design resembling the Beaming Face With Smiling Eyes emoji prior to 2016, and Samsung's earlier design featuring more puckered-looking lips. On Snapchat, this emoji next to a contact indicates that you send the most snaps to the same person they do, signifying a shared #1 Best Friend. It was approved as part of Unicode 6.1 in 2012 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Usage Examples
- I saw my ex at the party and just 😬 the whole time.
- She sent me a message and I replied with 😬 because I didn't know what to say.
- When I realized I forgot my lines on stage, I felt so 😬.
- He looked at me 😬 after spilling coffee on his shirt.
- On Snapchat, seeing 😬 next to my friend's name made me laugh.
Related Word Associations
nervousness, embarrassment, awkwardness, Snapchat, Best Friend
Appearance in OpenMoji
Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 😬 grimacing face emoji for cross-platform use:
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Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+1F62C
- Version:
- Emoji E1.0
Developer Codes
| Shortcodes | :grimacing: |
| HTML Dec | 😮 |
| HTML Hex | 😬 |
| CSS | \01F62C |
| C/C++/Python | u'\U0001F62C' |
| Java/JS/JSON | \uD83D\uDE2C |
| Perl | \x{1F62C} |
| PHP/Ruby | \u{1F62C} |
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