What does 🤫 mean?
A shushing face with finger to lips: quiet, a secret, 'shh'.
Its official Unicode name is FACE WITH FINGER COVERING CLOSED LIPS and its CLDR short name is "shushing face" (in Hungarian: "csitító arc"). 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
- quiet
- shh
- shush
- shushing
In Hungarian: arc, csend, csitt, csönd, csöndesen, csöndre int, elhallgattat, halkan, maradj csendben, pszt
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+1F92B. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- FACE WITH FINGER COVERING CLOSED LIPS
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- csitító arc
- English name (CLDR)
- shushing face
- 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
- :shushing_face:
Related emojis
- Smiling face with open hands
- Face with hand over mouth
- Thinking face
- Face with open eyes and hand over mouth
- Face with peeking eye
- Saluting face
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🤫 emoji mean?
A shushing face with finger to lips: quiet, a secret, 'shh'.
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.