Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 14.0
🫣Face With Peeking Eye Emoji
Means peeking at something too embarrassing or scary to look at head-on, like watching a scene through your fingers. Sent when something’s hard to watch.
It shows a face hiding behind hands with one eye peeking through, added in 2021 to capture that instinct to look away and sneak a glance anyway.
- Unicode
- U+1FAE3
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :face_
with_ peeking_ eye: - 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 Peeking Eye emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 12.
People also look for it as face peeking eye emoji, peeking eye emoji, peeking emoji, hiding face emoji, hiding emoji, peeking face emoji.
02 — Platforms
Face With Peeking Eye emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the face with peeking eye as 9 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Face With Peeking Eye 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 :face_with_peeking_eye:.
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+1FAE3.
04 — How to type
How to type the 🫣 Face With Peeking Eye emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1FAE3 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Face With Peeking Eye 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
Face With Peeking Eye emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around face with peeking eye 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
Who sent the face with peeking eye and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 🫣 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the face with peeking eye lands changes how it is taken.
11 — History
Where the 🫣 Face With Peeking Eye emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 14.0, the face with peeking eye has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 5.
Same character every time — U+1FAE3 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 Peeking Eye was approved as U+1FAE3 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.
12 — FAQ