😮Face with Open Mouth Emoji
Generally, 😮 means someone is genuinely surprised or shocked by something. It’s a quick way to show you’re reacting strongly to a message.
The 😮 emoji shows a face with its mouth wide open.
- Unicode
- U+1F62E
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :open_mouth:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😮 Face with Open Mouth emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as believe emoji.
Face with Open Mouth emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the face with open mouth has been drawn in 3 ways.
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.
Face with Open Mouth emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :open_mouth:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F62E.
How to type the 😮 Face with Open Mouth emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F62E when there is no key at all.
Face with Open Mouth emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Face with Open Mouth emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around face with open 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 😮 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F62E, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
😮 vs 🤗 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Face with Open Mouth
Code: U+1F62E · added 2015
Shortcode: :open_mouth:
Generally, 😮 means someone is genuinely surprised or shocked by something.
Unicode name: Smiling Face with Open Hands
Code: U+1F917 · added 2015
Shortcode: :hugging_face:
Usually, it just means “I’m sending you a hug!
Where the 😮 Face with Open Mouth emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F62E 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.
Face with Open Mouth was approved as U+1F62E and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.
People wrote it as
:o, :-o, :O, :-O back when messages were plain text. Most keyboards still convert those automatically.