Fake nose, thick glasses, and a mustache turn the disguised face emoji into a walking "nothing to see here." It captions a plan hidden in plain sight, a joke about going incognito, or anyone pretending — badly — to be someone else.
What 🥸 means
A yellow face with a large nose, big glasses, hairy eyebrows and a mustache. This emoji is a comical illustration of a disguise. It can refer to a spy, a 'blessing in disguise', or disguised situations in general.
The 🥸 Disguised Face emoji emanates a feeling of wearing a mask, or in other words, a masked situation, conversation or person. Besides using it to state the obvious of someone being in a disguise, this emoji can also be used in scenarios where there's more to what's on the surface.
How and when to use it
- If you're finding someone or something to be fishy, use this emoji in conversations about the fishiness.
- You can also use this emoji to casually tell someone that there's more to a situation or a person than what meets the eye.
- You can also use this emoji while telling someone that you're dressing up for an event.
- This emoji can be brought into conversations about flaky and 'masked' situations.
- Use this emoji in its literal sense to tell that you're disguising for some apparent reason.
- It can also be used as an emoji way of saying "the walls have ears", that someone's been spying around.
Other Names
- 🥸 Disguised
- 🥸 Masked Face
- 🥸 Spy
- 🥸 Spy Face
- 🥸 Camouflaged
- 🥸 Fishy
- 🥸 Investigation
- 🥸 Geek
- 🥸 Mustache Emoji
- 🥸 Eyebrows
🥸 in real conversations
What does 🥸 mean in texting?
Pretending to be someone else, or playing dumb about something everyone already knows — the glasses-and-mustache disguise is a joke about hiding in plain sight when hiding is obviously not really happening. "Wasn't me 🥸" is a deliberately unconvincing denial, sent by someone who clearly did it.
What does 🥸 mean on social media?
It flags a post where someone's being cagey on purpose — sharing gossip "anonymously," or captioning a screenshot with obviously fake names. The disguise is always a wink, never an actual attempt to fool anyone reading it, since the joke depends on the disguise being see-through.
Why does 🥸 have glasses, eyebrows, and a mustache?
It's the classic novelty-shop disguise — the plastic glasses-nose-mustache combo sold as a joke costume for decades before it became an emoji. That prop is instantly recognizable as fake, which is exactly the point: nobody's actually hidden by it.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-hat
- Codepoints
U+1F978- Emoji version
- Emoji 13.0
- Shortcodes
:disguised_face:- Keywords
- disguise, eyebrow, face, glasses, incognito, moustache, mustache, nose, person, spy, tache, tash
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🥸 Disguised Face or 🧮 Abacus?