🫢️ Face with open eyes and hand over mouth emoji
HTML
🫢
Unicode
U+1FAE2
What is 🫢️ called?
🫢️ is called the Face with open eyes and hand over mouth emoji.
Often called the gasping face, shocked face or open-eyes hand-over-mouth face. The longer description distinguishes it from the more playful 🤭 Face with hand over mouth.
What does 🫢️ mean?
The face with open eyes and hand over mouth emoji expresses shock, disbelief, amazement, fear, or a sharp gasp. It suits unexpected news, a startling reveal, or something so surprising that words momentarily fail.
Unlike the smiling-eyed 🤭 Face with hand over mouth, this face keeps its eyes open, so the reaction usually feels serious rather than giggly. 😱 Face screaming in fear raises the intensity to outright terror.
It can respond to good or bad surprises; the surrounding words determine whether the gasp comes from awe, embarrassment, disgust, or concern.
Other meanings
It may mean “I cannot believe that,” “oh my goodness,” or quietly witnessing something awkward. The covered mouth can also signal trying not to interrupt or reveal a reaction.
Example Usage
They announced the winner and it was me 🫢
I cannot believe they said that in the meeting 🫢
More details
Its Unicode code point is U+1FAE2, and it was introduced in Emoji 14.0. The open eyes were specified to separate shock and amazement from the older hand-over-mouth face, whose designs often show smiling eyes.
Visual description
A round yellow face has two open eyes and one hand covering its mouth. Many designs add raised eyebrows, making the expression look startled or wide awake.
The fingers usually lie across the lower face while the eyes remain fully visible. Platforms vary the hand position, eye size, and degree of alarm.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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