Face with hand over mouth emoji meaning

The face with hand over mouth emoji is a yellow, circular emoji with a face and a hand covering the mouth. It is often used to represent surprise, shock, or embarrassment, or to show that someone is shocked or surprised by something. It can also be used to indicate that someone is trying to keep a secret or to silence themselves. In emoji form, it is represented as 🤭.

The face with hand over mouth emoji is also known as Whoops Emoji.

The face with hand over mouth emoji was approved in Unicode 10.0 and added in Emoji 5.0, see related proposal L2/16313