Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 5.0
🤨Face with Raised Eyebrow Emoji
It usually means someone is questioning something or doesn’t believe it. It’s a way to express doubt or a slightly confused reaction in a text.
The 🤨 emoji is a raised eyebrow.
- Unicode
- U+1F928
- Released
- 2017
- Shortcode
- :face_
with_ raised_ eyebrow: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 🤨 Face with Raised Eyebrow 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 hmm emoji, raised eyebrow emoji, eyebrow raised emoji, eyebrow emoji.
02 — Platforms
Face with Raised Eyebrow emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F928 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your face with raised eyebrow 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
Face with Raised Eyebrow emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :face_with_raised_eyebrow:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the face with raised eyebrow, code point U+1F928.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🤨 Face with Raised Eyebrow emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F928 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Face with Raised Eyebrow emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the face with raised eyebrow as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Face with Raised Eyebrow emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around face with raised eyebrow 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.
07 — Emoji Kitchen
Face with Raised Eyebrow Emoji Kitchen stickers
Mixed with other emojis by Google's Kitchen — 619 stickers exist for the face with raised eyebrow, and 12 of them are below. Tap any to open it full size.
Mix it yourself →
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
One code point, several readings — where the face with raised eyebrow lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
🤨 vs 🤚 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Face with Raised Eyebrow
Code: U+1F928 · added 2017
Shortcode: :face_with_raised_eyebrow:
It usually means someone is questioning something or doesn’t believe it.
Unicode name: Raised Back of Hand
Code: U+1F91A · added 2016
Shortcode: :raised_back_of_hand:
Generally, 🤚 means “stop” or “wait.”
12 — History
Where the 🤨 Face with Raised Eyebrow emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F928 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 Raised Eyebrow was approved as U+1F928 and shipped in Emoji 5.0 (2017). 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