😐
The neutral face emoji shows a face with a flat, straight-line mouth and blank eyes. It expresses a deliberately noncommittal reaction — uncertainty, mild annoyance, awkwardness, or having nothing to say — often used when a situation is too flat or dull to react to more strongly.
What 😐 means
The Neutral Face emoji is a yellow face with wide, blank eyes and a straight line for a mouth. This emoji brings out a neutral sensation to the conversation - more like an 'I don't know what to say' phrase. It suggests a sense of uncertainty, dilemma, confusion, and an overall blank expression.
How and when to use it
- When someone asks you an opinion on something you have no personal clue on, you can send this as a sign of cluelessness.
- If you're sending something you have no comments on, so much so that it's left you speechless (in a negative way), you can send this emoji to show that.
- If you're texting someone about something and that something has left you in a maze of confusion, use this emoji to signal that.
Other Names:
- 😐 Unsure Face
😐 Clueless Face - 😐 Dilemma
- 😐 Straight Face
- 😐 Face With Straight Mouth
- 😐 Straight Faced
😐 I Don't Know Face
😐 Um Emoji - 😐 Speechless
😐 Unable to Decide
😐 Confused
At a glance
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-neutral-skeptical
- Codepoints
U+1F610- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.7
- Shortcodes
:neutral_face:- Keywords
- awkward, blank, deadpan, expressionless, face, fine, jealous, meh, neutral, oh, shade, straight, unamused, unhappy, unimpressed, whatever
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 😐 Neutral Face or 🥘 Shallow Pan of Food?