Face with symbols on mouth

Grawlix symbols over the mouth: cursing. It stands in for swear words without typing them.

Sent when someone is furious, stubs a toe or loses a game, and as a censored curse in comments. It feels more explosive than 😡 and can be funny, like cartoon swearing.

Facts

Face with symbols on mouth 🤬 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face negative. 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 :cursing_face: or :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:. People also look for it with words like “censor”, “cursing”, “cussing”, or “face”.

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