The pleading face emoji shows a round, anime-style face with furrowed brows and big, glossy puppy-dog eyes. It's used to beg for something ("pretty please"), to react to something adorable, or to express heartfelt gratitude, sadness, or vulnerability — an exaggerated, cute plea rather than genuine distress.
What 🥺 means
A yellow face with frowned eyebrows and watery eyes with a small curve for a mouth. Inspired by anime cartoons and sketches, the eyes here depict affection, vulnerability, and a deep sense of love.
As the name suggests, the 🥺 Pleading Face emoji is the animated version of the phrase "Pretty please...". It also substitutes the common phrases such as "Aww", "So cute", "Omg", "So sad", etc. Besides, this emoji surfaces a sense of gratefulness and warmth too.
How and when to use it
- If you're texting a close family member or a friend for a favor and you need this one real bad, use this emoji as a way of pestering someone with puppy eyes.
- This emoji can be used when you just witnessed something insanely cute, adorable, or even sad - like "aww, poor thing 🥺".
- Send this emoji if you're trying to be dramatically cute.
- If you're feeling this sudden gush of gratitude to your loved one(s), send this emoji and tell them how grateful you are (or just call them).
- Use this emoji as a reaction to something that deeply touched you.
Other Names
- 🥺 Puppy Eyes
- 🥺 Please Face
- 🥺 Grateful
- 🥺 Smitten
- 🥺 Feeling Loved
- 🥺 Begging
- 🥺 Glossy Eyes
- 🥺 Feeling Touched
- 🥺 Simp
- 🥺 Warmth
- 🥺 Aww
🥺 in real conversations
What does 🥺 mean from a girl?
Puppy-dog eyes. Either a soft ask — “please?” — or melting at something cute you said or did. It can carry a flirty, deliberately vulnerable tone, which is exactly why it took over.
What does 🥺 mean from a guy?
Usually playful begging or mock-vulnerability — asking for a favor while pre-apologizing for it. Sincerity scales with the size of the ask attached.
What does 🥺 mean in texting?
The face you make when you want something or when something touched you. “You did that for me? 🥺” is gratitude; “🥺 can we get pizza” is a negotiation tactic.
At a glance
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-concerned
- Codepoints
U+1F97A- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:pleading_face:- Keywords
- begging, big, eyes, face, mercy, not, pleading, please, pretty, puppy, sad, why
How it looks across platforms
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Pairs well with
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⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🥺 Pleading Face or 🚖 Oncoming Taxi?
Runs with a crowd
🥺 keeps company in cute emojis and sad emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.