U+1FAE2 "🫢" Face with Open Eyes and Hand over Mouth Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🫢
U+1FAE2 "🫢" Face with Open Eyes and Hand over Mouth is a relatively recent addition to the emoji set, officially approved in 2021 as part of Unicode 14.0. It depicts a face with wide, staring eyes and a hand placed over the mouth, conveying a specific blend of surprise, shock, embarrassment, or the gesture of trying to suppress a laugh or gasp. This emoji is often used in digital communication to express a moment of awkwardness, such as when someone accidentally reveals a secret, witnesses something scandalous, or hears unexpected news that elicits a silent, stunned reaction.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FAE2 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Face with Open Eyes and Hand over Mouth |
| Block | Symbols and Pictographs Extended-A |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🫢 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🫢 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xAB 0xA2 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDEE2 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FAE2 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udee2 |