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😮 Face With Open Mouth Emoji
A round open mouth for surprise, amazement, sudden realisation, or being briefly lost for words.
QUICK FACTS
- Official name
- Face With Open Mouth
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Subcategory
- Face Concerned
- Unicode
- U+1F62E
- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Unicode version
- 17.0
What Does Mean?
The face with open mouth emoji shows wide eyes and a small round mouth. It communicates surprise, amazement, sudden realisation, or a brief speechless reaction. The expression is neutral enough to fit good news, an impressive view, an unexpected fact, or a minor shock. It does not automatically mean fear or distress. Pair it with words when the same surprise could be positive, negative, or sarcastic, especially in a short reply.
Tone
FriendlyPositiveCheerful
Quick Meaning
A round open mouth for surprise, amazement, sudden realisation, or being briefly lost for words.
Use Cases
How People Use 😮
Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.
Show amazement at something impressive
Show amazement at something impressive.
Express a sudden realisation
Express a sudden realisation.
Indicate that you are briefly speechless
Indicate that you are briefly speechless.
Real Messages
😮 Emoji Examples
Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 😮.
“You finished the whole project today? 😮”
“The view from the top is incredible 😮”
“I had no idea the building was that old 😮”
Lookup Data
Names, Keywords and Search Terms
Search terms, common aliases, and lookup keywords.
Official Name
Face With Open Mouth
Subcategory: Face ConcernedAliases & Common Names
- open mouth
Keywords & Search Terms
- open mouth
- surprised
- amazed
- speechless
- shocked
- wow
- realisation
- unexpected
Developer Reference
😮 Emoji Codes
Copy Unicode, HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and programming escape values.
FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F62ECode points
U+1F62EUTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0xAEUTF-16
\uD83D\uDE2EHTML decimal entity
😮HTML hexadecimal entity
😮JavaScript escape
\u{1F62E}CSS escape
\1F62E Python string
\U0001F62EDiscovery
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Emoji Styles
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Microsoft Fluent
MIT License
Google Noto
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Twemoji
CC BY 4.0
OpenMoji
CC BY-SA 4.0
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FAQ
Questions About 😮
Frequently asked questions about meaning, copying, PNG export, and Unicode data.
A round open mouth for surprise, amazement, sudden realisation, or being briefly lost for words.
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Yes. The surrounding words, relationship, and platform can change how 😮 is read, so add text when the intent matters.
The Unicode code point for 😮 is U+1F62E.
Close alternatives include 😲 Astonished Face, 😳 Flushed Face, 😯 Hushed Face, 😱 Face Screaming In Fear. Choose the one whose expression or symbol best matches the message.
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