Face with symbols on mouth emoji meaning

The face with symbols on mouth emoji is a way to express strong emotions like anger, frustration, or annoyance. The emoji shows a face with its mouth covered by a black bar, with symbols like exclamation points, dollar signs, and hashtags on it. These symbols represent curse words or offensive language without actually displaying them. People use this emoji in texts or online conversations when they want to show that they are upset to the point of swearing or to emphasize intense annoyance, without actually using inappropriate language. It is a visual shorthand for expressing feelings that are hard to put into polite words.

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