What does 🤭 mean?
Face with hand over mouth: giggling, 'oops', a secret laugh.
Its official Unicode name is SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES AND HAND COVERING MOUTH and its CLDR short name is "face with hand over mouth" (in Hungarian: "arc szájra tett kézzel"). It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group and was added in Emoji 5.0 in 2017.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- face
- giggle
- giggling
- hand
- mouth
- oops
- realization
- secret
- shock
- sudden
In Hungarian: hirtelen ráébred, hirtelen rájön, hoppá, kéz a száj előtt arc, kuncog, nevet, röhög, rötyög, szmájli, titok
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws 🤭 in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F92D. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- SMILING FACE WITH SMILING EYES AND HAND COVERING MOUTH
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- arc szájra tett kézzel
- English name (CLDR)
- face with hand over mouth
- Emoji version
- Emoji 5.0 (2017)
- Group
- Smileys & Emotion · face hand
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :hand_over_mouth:
Related emojis
- Smiling face with open hands
- Shushing face
- Thinking face
- Face with open eyes and hand over mouth
- Face with peeking eye
- Saluting face
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🤭 emoji mean?
Face with hand over mouth: giggling, 'oops', a secret laugh.
How do I type the 🤭 emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "face".
When was the 🤭 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 5.0 (2017).
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.