👄Mouth Emoji
Generally, it means someone is talking about their mouth – whether they’re speaking, eating, or about to kiss. It’s often used to add a bit of flirtation or playfulness to a text.
Also searched as kissing emoji
The 👄 emoji represents a mouth.
- Unicode
- U+1F444
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :lips:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 👄 Mouth emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as lips emoji, lipstick emoji, kiss lips emoji, lips kissing emoji, lipstick kiss emoji.
Mouth emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F444. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Mouth emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :lips:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the mouth, code point U+1F444.
How to type the 👄 Mouth emoji
No picker to hand? The mouth can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Mouth emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the mouth as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Mouth emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around mouth for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 👄, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 👄 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the mouth and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 👄 means in other countries
Paired with the tongue it turns explicit; on its own it usually just means talking, gossip or a kiss.
Together they’re shorthand for oral-sex references in most English-language chat.
Used alone for “spill the tea” or “I said what I said”, no double meaning implied.
Read literally as lips, with no sexual undertone in a product context.
Before you send it: On its own it’s low-risk; avoid sending it right next to the tongue emoji unless that’s the point.
What 👄 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
👄 vs 🤬 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Mouth
Code: U+1F444 · added 2010
Shortcode: :lips:
Generally, it means someone is talking about their mouth – whether they’re speaking, eating, or about to kiss.
Unicode name: Face with Symbols on Mouth
Code: U+1F92C · added 2017
Shortcode: :face_with_symbols_on_mouth:
🤬 means a face with a furious red mouth.
Where the 👄 Mouth emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F444 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
👄 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E6F9, KDDI au EAD1, SoftBank E41C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Mouth was approved as U+1F444 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 👄 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.