🫢

Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth Emoji 🫢

Eyes wide open in shock while a hand clamps over the mouth — this face is a gasp rendered in emoji form. It signals genuine surprise, disbelief, or 'I can't believe you just said that,' and reads more sincere than the giggly face with hand over mouth it's often confused with.

What 🫢 means

An emoji describing a round yellow face with wide, blank eyes and a yellow hand completely covering the mouth.

The 🫢 Face With Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth emoji face is the "surprised and/or shocked variant" of the 🤭 Face With Hand Over Mouth. In the sense, it's not as warm. The eyes do the talking. The present emoji conveys bewilderment, horror, disbelief, and embarrassment.

How and when to use it

If you're physically covering your mouth with your hand and leaving your eyes open, chances are that you witnessed something embarrassing, shocking, disgusting, or even downright unexpected.
Similarly, if you encountered something like that online and you're now responding to it via text messages or comments, use this emoji.
If someone sent or said something that made you go Oh no, this is the emoji you should be replying with.
The open eyes here are what draws the line. The bottom line. This emoji takes it from there. What we mean is, this emoji is aptest for contexts that aren't nice, warm, and fuzzy. But rather uncomfortable.
If you're responding to a death (fictional or non-fictional), you may use this emoji. However, the virtual atmosphere ought to be casual and not super serious because then this emoji would be the worst thing to send.

Other Names

🫢 Shocked Face
🫢 Face Covering Mouth
🫢 Face in Awe
🫢 Bewilderment
🫢 Unexpected/Disbelief
🫢 Oh No! Face
🫢 Horrified Face
🫢 Shaken Up

The lowdown

Category: Smileys & Emotion › face-hand
Codepoints: U+1FAE2
Emoji version: Emoji 14.0
Shortcodes: :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:
Keywords: amazement, awe, disbelief, embarrass, eyes, face, gasp, hand, mouth, omg, open, over, quiet, scared, shock, surprise

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.