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Face with Diagonal Mouth Emoji 🫤

A slanted, off-kilter mouth gives this face an ambivalent, half-committed look — the face with diagonal mouth. It's used for mild skepticism, so-so feelings, or a shrug of indifference, sitting somewhere between a neutral face and outright disapproval.

What 🫤 means

A yellow face shown with a pair of black eyes and a slanted mouth such that one end of its corners is close to one of the eyes. Although the name says "diagonal", this emoji could represent a crooked mouth, in both literal and metaphorical contexts.

The 🫤 Face With Diagonal Mouth emoji is the animated version of the textual emoji ":-/". Both indicate confusion, fickleness, and dilemma. They also suggest a sense of being unsure, skeptical, disappointed, or even expressionless for any reason.

How and when to use it

Assuming this emoji signifies a crooked mouth, it's palpable that it means a crooked smile as well. If you were to describe someone with a crooked smile, use this emoji.
Examples for the previous point - "I think that's just how his smile is 🫤" or "Sheesh. Should've seen the crooked smile on his face. Made me sick to my stomach" (crooked being twisted in this context).
Send this emoji while feeling unsure and not completely invested in something or someone. For instance, "IDK man. Doesn't seem like a wise decision for now 🫤" or "Nah. I'm really not certain of that 🫤".
A diagonal mouth may also expressionless mouth, given the minimal amount of emotion shown on it. Like, "Meh. I don't think much of it. 🫤" or "Yeah, cool. Whatever 🫤".
If someone said something that made you think twice or not at all, you can use this emoji in reply to that text. For example, "What? 🫤", "Huh? 🫤", "I don't get it 🫤".

Other Names

🫤 Face With Crooked Mouth
🫤 Unsure Face
🫤 Uncertain
🫤 Expressionless Face
🫤 Skeptical Face/Skepticism
🫤 Meh Face/Meh
🫤 Indifferent Face/Indifference
🫤 Disappointed Face/Disappointment
🫤 Umm Face

The lowdown

Category: Smileys & Emotion › face-concerned
Codepoints: U+1FAE4
Emoji version: Emoji 14.0
Shortcodes: :face_with_diagonal_mouth:
Keywords: confused, confusion, diagonal, disappointed, doubt, doubtful, face, frustrated, frustration, meh, mouth, skeptical, unsure, whatever, wtv

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.