U+1FAE6 "🫦" Biting Lip Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🫦
U+1FAE6 "🫦" Biting Lip is a relatively recent addition to the standard, officially included in Emoji 14.0 and Unicode 14.0 in September 2021. It depicts a mouth with teeth visibly pressing down on the lower lip, a gesture commonly associated with expressions of nervousness, anticipation, flirtation, or restrained desire. Its design often varies across platforms, with some versions showing a subtle smile or more pronounced teeth marks to convey the intended tension or mood. This emoji fills a specific gap in non verbal communication in digital text, allowing users to signal a moment of cautious excitement or seductive hesitation without words.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1FAE6 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Biting Lip |
| 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 0xA6 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDEE6 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001FAE6 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udee6 |