Grimacing face

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Shortcode: :grimacing:
Shortcode: :grimacing_face:
Unicode: U+1F62C
HTML: 😬
CSS: \1F62C
JavaScript: "\u{1F62C}"
URL: %F0%9F%98%AC

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What 😬 means

Clenched teeth: awkward, tense, uh-oh. It signals that something is uncomfortable, risky or embarrassing.

Used for awkward news, near disasters, bad timing and secondhand embarrassment: “I hit reply-all 😬.” It is common in work chat to flag a problem without drama.

Some people send it as a happy grin by mistake; for that, 😁 is the usual pick.

Facts

Grimacing face 😬 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face neutral skeptical. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :grimacing: or :grimacing_face:. People also look for it with words like “awk”, “awkward”, “dentist”, or “face”.