What is the meaning of the smiley 🤭?

The smileys, you use them daily in your messages, your SMS or publication on social networks. Indeed, they are mainly used to spice up or liven up your conversations. But do you know exactly what these emojis mean? We tell you all in this article.

All about this smiley

This smiley is a face emoji with a hand over its mouth. It is also called face with a hand covering his mouth and with a smile in his eyes and/or blushing cheeks. This emoji is also one of the few face-type emojis that shows an anatomical element other than the head. It is classified under the same category as the hugging emoji, the silent emoji and the pensive emoji. It also belongs to the category "😂 Smileys & Emotion".

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In some apps, this emoji is shown smiling with laughing eyes. In others, it is with a neutral gaze, and the outline of the mouth is not visible.

General information about this emoji

  • Short name: Face with hand over mouth
  • Apple name: Face with hand over mouth and laughing eyes
  • Unicode Version: 10.0
  • Emoji version: 5.0
  • Category: 😂 Smileys & Emotion
  • Subcategory: 🤔 face-hand
  • Sub-group: Facing the hand

What does this emoji mean?

This emoji means to cover your mouth, not speak, or mute. It may suggest laughter or falsely shy embarrassment as if to say "oops!" ". Typical gesture for people who lie. Indeed, depending on the situation, it can be considered differently. He can interpret the fact that you saw something that shocked you or that you laughed at a situation that you should not laugh at or that you are asked to giggle and you have to cover your mouth.

In its joyful version, the hand over the mouth expresses an attempt at restraint. For example, when laughing at a humorous situation with potentially negative consequences such as awkwardness, blunder or involuntary fall. The fact that the emoji has a hand covering its mouth diminishes the incoercible nature of the laughter by drowning out the noise or masking the gazes of others as best they can.

In the neutral version, this emoji expresses embarrassment at a goof. For example: you unwittingly revealed a secret or information that should not have been leaked or communicated to a person. It is replaced with the expression: “Oops, I said too much. " And vice versa.

Other name

  • Laughing Emoji
  • Emoji giggling with joy
  • Emoji with hand covering mouth

Prior to the iOS 15.4 release in March 2022, Apple's model featured simple open eyes, someone suggests, exclaiming "Oh, damn it!" to express surprise, shock, concern or sincere apology. In others, it expresses embarrassment or brazenness.

Example and use

  • Wendy William, the most famous girl in the world, always talked about it.🤭
  • 🤭 Oops!
  • Oh, my God 🤭!

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