🫦Biting Lip Emoji
Generally, it means someone is feeling a little bit nervous or excited. It’s often used to convey a hint of flirtation or a desire to appear more confident than they feel.
Also searched as lips bite emoji, bite lips emoji, lip bite emoji
The 🫦 emoji shows a mouth with a biting lip.
- Unicode
- U+1FAE6
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :biting_lip:
- 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.
What does the 🫦 Biting Lip emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 17.
People also look for it as lip bite emoji, bite emoji, bite lip emoji, flirting emoji, lip biting emoji.
Biting Lip emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1FAE6 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your biting lip looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Biting Lip emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :biting_lip:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1FAE6.
How to type the 🫦 Biting Lip emoji
No picker to hand? The biting lip can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Biting Lip emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the biting lip as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Biting Lip emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around biting lip 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 in other countries
Almost always read as sexual desire or flirtation — there’s no neutral, purely literal use for this one.
Standard “I’m attracted to you” signal, closer to explicit than a simple wink.
Caption emoji for “this is hot”, used on photos of people or food alike.
Reads as flirty regardless of setting — there’s no safe literal meaning to fall back on.
Before you send it: Treat it like a compliment with intent behind it; don’t use it casually with coworkers or relatives.
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.
Emojis similar to the Biting Lip emoji
Same family (body-parts) — often confused with biting lip or used alongside it.
Fingerprint
👶Baby
👧Girl
🧒Child
👦Boy
Collections 🫦 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
Where the 🫦 Biting Lip emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 14.0, the biting lip has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 5.
Same character every time — U+1FAE6 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.
Biting Lip was approved as U+1FAE6 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.