?? Grimacing Face
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with simple open eyes showing clenched teeth. May represent a range of negative or tense emotions, especially nervousness, embarrassment, or awkwardness (e.g., Eek!).
Resembled ?? Beaming Face With Smiling Eyes on Apple iOS prior to 2017. Apple’s design for ?? Cold Face features the same mouth. Samsung's design previously featured more puckered-looking lips.
On Snapchat, this emoji next to a contact denotes that you send the most snaps to the same person that they do., i.e., you share a #1 Best Friend.
Grimacing Face was approved as part of Unicode 6.1 in 2012 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Copy and Paste
?? Appearance differs greatly cross-platform. Use with caution.
Also Known As
- ?? Awkward
- ?? Eek
- ?? Foot In Mouth
- ?? Nervous
- ?? Snapchat Mutual #1?Best Friend
Apple Name
?? Grimacing Face
Codepoints
Shortcodes
- :grimacing: (Github, Slack)
- :grimacing_face: (Emojipedia)
See also
- ?? Confused Face
- ?? Face Without Mouth
- ?? Downcast Face with Sweat
- ?? Face with Steam From Nose
- ?? Anxious Face with Sweat
- ?? Face with Rolling Eyes
- ?? Flushed Face
- ?? Cold Face
- ?? Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes
- ?? Person Pouting
- ?? Pouting Cat
- ?? Pouting Face
- ?? Robot
- ?? Grinning Face with Big Eyes
- ?? Grinning Face with Sweat
- ?? Face with Hand Over Mouth
- ?? Thinking Face
- ?? Upside-Down Face
Browse
- ?? on Instagram
- ?? on Twitter
- ?? on Wikipedia
- ?? on Yelp
- ?? on YouTube
- ?? on Google Trends
- ?? on Nomad List
Proposals
- ?? Grimacing Face Emoji Proposal: L2/10-142