Dotted line face emoji meaning

The dotted line face emoji is a yellow, circular emoji with a face with a dotted line in place of a mouth, as if the person is unable to speak. It is similar to the face without mouth emoji, but with a dotted line instead of a completely blank face. It is often used to show that someone is speechless or surprised, or to indicate that someone is unable to express themselves. It can also be used to show that someone is feeling sad or disappointed.

The dotted line face emoji is also known as Depressed Emoji.

The dotted line face emoji was approved in Unicode 14.0 and added in Emoji 14.0, see related proposal L2/20223