🤫

Shushing Face Emoji 🤫

One finger pressed to closed lips is a gesture recognized everywhere, and shushing face borrows it to mean exactly that: keep quiet. It hushes a conversation, flags something confidential, or begs someone not to spoil a surprise before it's ready.

What 🤫 means

The Shushing Face emoji is a yellow face slightly tilted backwards. It has plain eyes that are a little elevated and a small line for a mouth that is covered with a finger (exactly. like a shush). Some platforms even have eyebrows for this emoji.

Much like the real-life usage of the shushing face, this emoji too is used to silence someone on chat. Although not as effective as shushing someone in real life, this emoji can be a cute way of saying someone to shut up on text.

How and when to use it

If you're texting in a group, and one of them says something about you the rest don't know, use this emoji on the group chat, and DM this person.
If you're texting someone something classified, send this emoji along to signify that it's secretive and that the former must hush about it.
The 🤫 Shushing Face can also work as a cheesy way of telling someone 'Say No More' and showing up at their doorstep with a pizza.
While it's cute to shush someone on chat, ensure to never do it to someone older or people who are not-so-close. Chances are that they can show up at your doorstep.

Other Names

🤫 Shut Up
🤫 Keep Quiet
🤫 Hush!
🤫 Shushing Face
🤫 Quiet
🤫 Finger on Lips

🤫 in real conversations

What does 🤫 mean?

Finger to the lips — quiet down, or keep this between us. It's the emoji for secrets, surprises, and anything not meant to leave the group chat.

What does 🤫 mean from a girl?

Usually "don't tell anyone" energy — sharing gossip with a built-in confidentiality clause, or building suspense before a reveal. "Guess who texted me 🤫" is a classic setup.

What does 🤫 mean in texting?

A request for discretion or a teaser for news still being held back. It creates anticipation as much as it asks for silence — "big news coming 🤫" promises more than it tells.

The lowdown

Category: Smileys & Emotion › face-hand
Codepoints: U+1F92B
Emoji version: Emoji 5.0
Shortcodes: :shushing_face::face_with_finger_covering_closed_lips: Slack
Keywords: face, quiet, shh, shush, shushing

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.