A row of grawlix — the censor-bar squiggles TV uses for swearing — covers the mouth in face with symbols on mouth, filling in for words too angry to type. Think of it as a bleeped rant, reserved for fury that would otherwise need actual profanity.
What 🤬 means
A reddish orange face with frowned eyebrows, staring eyes and a block of symbols covering the mouth. This emoji is the television version of blurring explicit content.
The 🤬 Face With Symbols on Mouth emoji suggests anger, outrage, and being extremely pissed off. The symbols here refer to abusive words, cuss words, and all the other sh*t we say when we're angry. The red face here signifies intense anger and a sense of 'boiling blood' level of rage.
How and when to use it
- Send this emoji in an incredibly frustrating conversation as a way of spitting abuse, but virtually (at least it can make you feel better).
- You can also use this emoji to show that you are visibly and articulately very, very pissed off by sending it as a reaction to something infuriating.
- This emoji can also be used to show indirect anger, like showing that you're mad at someone else for hurting someone you love.
- If you want to be dramatic with your emotions, send this emoji.
- You can also send this emoji as a way of saying "Don't mess with me 🤬" or "Oh, so you do want a piece of me 🤬 ?!"
Other Names
- 🤬 Abusing
- 🤬 Cussing
- 🤬 Fkn Angry
- 🤬 Pissed Off
- 🤬 Raging
- 🤬 Violence
- 🤬 Tough
- 🤬 Swearing
- 🤬 Cursing
- 🤬 Grawlix
🤬 in real conversations
What does 🤬 mean from a girl?
Full rage, swearing included — the scribbled symbols over the mouth are a “grawlix,” the classic comic-book stand-in for curse words. It's the angriest face in the whole emoji lineup by design.
What does 🤬 mean in texting?
Someone is cursing, out loud or in spirit. It gets used both for genuine fury and, just as often, comedic exaggeration — reacting to something mildly annoying as if it deserved a full meltdown.
Is 🤬 always serious?
Not necessarily — plenty of people fire it off for comic effect over something trivial, like bad Wi-Fi. The censored-swearing format makes it read as theatrical even when the anger underneath is real.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-negative
- Codepoints
U+1F92C- Emoji version
- Emoji 5.0
- Shortcodes
:cursing_face:GitHub:face_with_symbols_on_mouth:Slack:serious_face_with_symbols_covering_mouth:Slack:face_with_symbols_over_mouth:Discord- Keywords
- censor, cursing, cussing, face, mad, mouth, pissed, swearing, symbols
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 — 🤬 Face with Symbols on Mouth or 😊 Smiling Face with Smiling Eyes?
Runs with a crowd
🤬 keeps company in angry emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.