?? Face with Hand Over Mouth
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with a hand covering its mouth. Apple and Facebook feature simple, open eyes, suggesting someone gasping Oh my! in serious surprise, shock, concern, or apology. Other platforms depict a face with smiling eyes and/or blushing cheeks, suggesting coy laughter or embarrassment, as if cheekily saying Oops!
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 smiling eyes and mouth.
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.
Copy and Paste
?? Appearance differs greatly cross-platform. Use with caution.
Apple Name
?? Blushing Face with Hand Over Mouth
Unicode Name
?? Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes and Hand Covering Mouth
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :face_with_hand_over_mouth: (Slack, Emojipedia)
- :hand_over_mouth: (Github)
- :smiling_face_with_smiling_eyes_and_hand_covering_mouth: (Slack)
See also
- ?? Shushing Face
- ?? Flushed Face
- ?? Grimacing Face
- ?? Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes
- ?? Hear-No-Evil Monkey
- ?? Hugging Face
- ?? Lying Face
- ? Raised Hand
- ?? See-No-Evil Monkey
- ?? Face with Symbols on Mouth
- ?? Speak-No-Evil Monkey
- ?? Thinking Face
- ?? Yawning Face
- ?? Zipper-Mouth Face
Browse
- ?? on Instagram
- ?? on Twitter
- ?? on Wikipedia
- ?? on Yelp
- ?? on YouTube
- ?? on Google Trends
- ?? on Nomad List
Proposals
- ?? Face with Hand Over Mouth Emoji Proposal: L2/16-313