🤐️ Zipper-mouth face emoji

What is 🤐️ called?

🤐️ is called the Zipper-mouth face emoji.

What does 🤐️ mean?

The zipper-mouth face emoji means keeping quiet, withholding comment, or promising not to reveal a secret. The closed zipper turns “my lips are sealed” into a literal picture.

It differs from 🤫 Shushing face, which asks somebody else for silence, and 😶 Face without mouth, which suggests speechlessness or an absence of words. This face actively closes off speech.

Use it for confidential information, discretion, avoiding an argument, or declining to comment without writing a full explanation.

Other meanings

It may signal censorship, social awkwardness, staying out of drama, or realizing it would be wiser not to speak. In playful use it can promise that a surprise is safe.

Example Usage

Your surprise is safe with me 🤐

I have an opinion, but I am staying out of this one 🤐

More details

Its Unicode code point is U+1F910, and it has been available as an emoji since Emoji 1.0. The design illustrates the idioms “zip it” and “my lips are sealed.”

Related emoji

Quiet emojis

• 🤫️ Shushing face
• 😶️ Face without mouth
• 🔇️ Muted speaker
• 🔕️ Bell with slash

Visual description

A round yellow face has a closed metal zipper running horizontally where its mouth would normally be. The eyes are open and often appear neutral or slightly worried.

Designs vary the zipper colour, pull-tab position, and eye shape. The zipper is normally fully closed, visually sealing the mouth.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.