Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 14.0
🫢Face With Open Eyes And Hand Over Mouth Emoji
Means shock, surprise, or disbelief, like gasping at something unexpected. Sent to react to gossip, a shocking reveal, or something wild.
It shows a face with wide open eyes and a hand clasped over the mouth, exactly like the gesture people make when they physically gasp.
- Unicode
- U+1FAE2
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :face_
with_ open_ eyes_ and_ hand_ over_ mouth: - Skin tones
- No
Added in Emoji 14.0. On phones older than iOS 16 / Android 13 it arrives as an empty box — the character exists, the artwork does not.
01 — Meaning
What does the 🫢 Face With Open Eyes And Hand Over Mouth emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 14.
People also look for it as gasp emoji.
02 — Platforms
Face With Open Eyes And Hand Over Mouth emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1FAE2. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Face With Open Eyes And Hand Over Mouth emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1FAE2.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🫢 Face With Open Eyes And Hand Over Mouth emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
05 — Download
Face With Open Eyes And Hand Over Mouth emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the face with open eyes and hand over mouth 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 Open Eyes And Hand Over Mouth emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around face with open eyes and hand over mouth 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
What 🫢 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the face with open eyes and hand over mouth 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 Open Eyes And Hand Over Mouth
Code: U+1FAE2 · added 2021
Shortcode: :face_with_open_eyes_and_hand_over_mouth:
Means shock, surprise, or disbelief, like gasping at something unexpected.
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!”
12 — History
Where the 🫢 Face With Open Eyes And Hand Over Mouth emoji came from
It arrived with the 14.0 release of the standard, which dates the face with open eyes and hand over mouth to 2021.
Same character every time — U+1FAE2 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 Eyes And Hand Over Mouth was approved as U+1FAE2 and shipped in Emoji 14.0 (2021). 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