Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 3.0
🤥Lying Face Emoji
Generally, 🤥 means someone is suspected of lying or being dishonest. It’s a quick way to show you don’t believe what they’re saying in a text.
The 🤥 emoji, or Lying Face, shows a face with a raised nose, like Pinocchio.
- Unicode
- U+1F925
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :lying_
face: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🤥 Lying Face 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 lie emoji, pinocchio emoji.
02 — Platforms
Lying Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F925 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your lying face looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Lying Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :lying_face:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F925.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🤥 Lying Face emoji
No picker to hand? The lying face can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Lying Face 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Lying Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around lying face for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →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.
08 — In conversation
What 🤥 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
09 — Apps
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.
10 — Related
Emojis similar to the Lying Face emoji
Same family (face-neutral-skeptical) — often confused with lying face or used alongside it.
Smileys & Emotion →
Head Shaking Horizontally
Head Shaking Vertically
😀Grinning Face
😃Grinning Face with Big Eyes
😄Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes
Collections 🤥 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
11 — Difference
🤥 vs 🥏 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Lying Face
Code: U+1F925 · added 2016
Shortcode: :lying_face:
Generally, 🤥 means someone is suspected of lying or being dishonest.
Unicode name: Flying Disc
Code: U+1F94F · added 2018
Shortcode: :flying_disc:
It mostly just means frisbee or throwing a disc.
12 — History
Where the 🤥 Lying Face emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 3.0, the lying face has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F925 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.
Lying Face was approved as U+1F925 and shipped in Emoji 3.0 (2016). 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.
13 — FAQ