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Zipper-mouth Face Emoji 🤐

A zipper stands in for the mouth on the zipper-mouth face emoji, a face literally sealed shut, representing staying silent. Think keeping a secret, refusing to comment, or biting your tongue rather than continuing an argument, the visual equivalent of "my lips are sealed."

What 🤐 means

The Zipper-Mouth Face emoji is a yellow face, with wide-open eyes and a zip for a mouth. It reflects the 'Zip My Mouth' phrase, where you just cannot talk or argue with another person because it feels like talking to a wall. It shows the act of refraining from reacting to a situation.

It can also be used to show that you can keep a secret since the lips in this emoji are zipped. Thus, conveying confidence to trust.

How and when to use it

If you're in the middle of an argument on text and you just can't take it anymore, send this emoji (it may act as a catalyst to the given fire, but that's on you).
You can also use this emoji as a reaction to something you just have no comments on, or rather, do not want to have any.
The 🤐 Zipper-Mouth Face emoji can be used to show passive-aggressiveness, annoyance, irritation, and detachment on text.
If someone told you a secret via text, use this emoji as an act of saying 'I'll never open my mouth about it'.

Other Names

🤐 No Comments Face
🤐 Zipped Lips
🤐 Sealed Lips
🤐 Keeping a Secret
🤐 Lips Sealed
🤐 Zipped Face
🤐 Can't Talk
🤐 No Talking
🤐 Shut Up

🤐 in real conversations

What does 🤐 mean in texting?

Lips sealed — a promise to keep quiet, or a joke about biting back a comment better left unsaid. "Can't say, 🤐" shuts down a question without being rude, the zipper doing the work of an actual "my lips are sealed."

What does 🤐 mean from a girl?

Usually guarding a secret she's been told, or holding back an opinion she'd rather not share out loud right now. "🤐 you'll find out soon" teases that something's coming without giving away what it is, and it works just as well for a surprise as it does for gossip she's sitting on.

Is 🤐 the same as saying "no comment"?

Pretty much — it's the emoji version of a polite refusal to answer, used for gossip, surprises, and secrets alike. Unlike an actual "no comment," it usually comes with a wink built in; the sender clearly knows something good.

The lowdown

Category: Smileys & Emotion › face-neutral-skeptical
Codepoints: U+1F910
Emoji version: Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes: :zipper_mouth_face::zipper_mouth: Discord
Keywords: face, keep, mouth, quiet, secret, shut, zip, zipper, zipper-mouth

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.