🫢 Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth

A yellow face with open (non-smiling) eyes and a hand over the mouth, used to convey shock or surprise.
A disambiguation of 🤭 Face with Hand Over Mouth which appears to have smiling eyes on some platforms, and open/non-smiling eyes on others, creating confusion.
Appearance is similar to 🥱 Yawning Face, though no mouth is visible. 🫢 means to cover your mouth, not to speak, to mute, shut up, ‘oops’. Sometimes people will also use this gesture when they feel disbelief, embarrass amazed or surprised. It is similar to this emoji 🤭, but more negative. Related emojis: 🤫🤭🤐🙊. The meaning of emoji symbol 🫢 is face with open eyes and hand over mouth, it is related to amazement, awe, disbelief, embarrass, scared, surprise
Face with Open Eyes and Hand Over Mouth was approved as part of Unicode 14.0 in 2021 and added to Emoji 14.0 in 2021. 🚩 Approved in September 2021 as part of Emoji 14.0. Now available on Android 12L and coming soon to iOS 15.4.

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