Face with hand over mouth

Covering a giggle. It shows a held-back laugh, mild embarrassment or a playful “oops,” often after saying something cheeky.

Common with gossip, light teasing and accidental slips. Younger users often add it to a mild jab to make it sassy, like “not you sleeping through the alarm again 🤭.”

Facts

Face with hand over mouth 🤭 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face hand. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 5.0, released in 2017. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :hand_over_mouth: or :face_with_hand_over_mouth:. People also look for it with words like “face”, “giggle”, “giggling”, or “hand”.

Timeline

1. 2017Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 5.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion · Emoji 5.0