🫥️ Dotted line face emoji

What is 🫥️ called?

🫥️ is called the Dotted line face emoji.

What does 🫥️ mean?

The dotted line face emoji expresses feeling invisible, overlooked, withdrawn, or as though you are fading into the background. It can visualize wanting to disappear during an awkward or overwhelming moment.

Its faint outline makes absence the main idea. 😶 Face without mouth focuses on silence, while 🫣 Face with peeking eye hides but remains visibly curious.

Use it for social isolation, introversion, low visibility, embarrassment, or a temporary wish not to be noticed. Sensitive contexts may give it a more serious tone of disconnection.

Other meanings

It can represent a dotted selection outline, something incomplete or hidden, dissociation, or becoming metaphorically transparent. It may also indicate quietly leaving a conversation.

Example Usage

Everyone was introduced except me 🫥

After that awkward mistake, I would like to disappear 🫥

More details

Its Unicode code point is U+1FAE5, and it was introduced in Emoji 14.0. The dotted outline is intentional and supports meanings related to invisibility, hiding, and reduced presence.

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Visual description

A yellow face is outlined with a broken dotted or dashed line rather than a solid edge. Simple eyes and a short straight mouth remain visible inside the faint boundary.

The spacing and shape of the dots vary across platforms. Some designs look like a selection marquee, while others resemble a face slowly vanishing.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.