🤨

Face with Raised Eyebrow Emoji 🤨

One eyebrow cocked, mouth flat — the face with raised eyebrow is pure skepticism. Nicknamed after viral 'the look' moments from Stephen Colbert and The Rock, it's the emoji for 'really?' — calling out a sketchy excuse, a suspicious claim, or a joke that didn't land the way someone thinks it did.

What 🤨 means

The Face With Raised Eyebrow emoji is a yellow face with a small and a big eye, bracketed with a lower and a raised eyebrow respectively. This emoji has a straight and expressionless mouth.

Inspired by the Rock's face (Dwayne Johnson), this emoji signifies a general air of 'Don't Mess With Me'. But besides that, it also depicts a sense of scepticism, disbelief, and suspicion.

How and when to use it

How and When to Use the 🤨 Face With Raised Eyebrow Emoji

If you're having a playful argument over text, use this emoji as a replacement for the 'Oh, Really' phrase.
If your friend or anyone is telling you something that you're finding really hard to believe, send this emoji as a sign that you're not convinced enough.
If someone's acting too smart, send this emoji and a text saying 'Don't mess with me'.
If someone's thinking no end of themselves on text, send this emoji.

Other Names

🤨 The Rock Face
🤨 Suspicious Face
🤨 Skeptical Face
🤨 Don't Mess With Me
🤨 Colbert
🤨 The Face of Disbelief
🤨 Doubt

🤨 in real conversations

What does 🤨 mean from a girl?

Skepticism — the single raised eyebrow, borrowed straight from The Rock's signature look, questions whatever it's reacting to. “You expect me to believe that 🤨” is the textbook use.

What does 🤨 mean in texting?

Suspicious, doubtful, or quietly calling something out. It doesn't commit to full disbelief the way 🙄 does — it's more of a raised-eyebrow “really? go on.”

Is 🤨 suspicious or judgmental?

A bit of both — it questions whether something is even true while also side-eyeing the person who said it. Either way, it's rarely a compliment to whatever it's replying to.

The lowdown

Category: Smileys & Emotion › face-neutral-skeptical
Codepoints: U+1F928
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :raised_eyebrow: GitHub:face_with_raised_eyebrow: Slack · Discord:face_with_one_eyebrow_raised: Slack
Keywords: disapproval, disbelief, distrust, emoji, eyebrow, face, hmm, mild, raised, skeptic, skeptical, skepticism, surprise, what

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.