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grimacing face

A grimacing face

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Code points: U+1F62C
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Meaning

A face with gritted teeth — cringe, awkwardness, or second-hand embarrassment.

Grimacing face — Approved as part of Emoji 1.0 in 2015.

In conversation

The cringe emoji: an awkward moment, a bad joke landing wrong, or 'yikes, that's rough'.

Tone

Awkward and pained.

Common uses

reacting to cringe
awkward moments
saying 'yikes'
mild pain

Watch out

Its 'yikes' tone can seem judgmental — for shared embarrassment, 😅 is softer.

Examples

yikes 😬
that was awkward 😬
cringe 😬
sorry, that hurt 😬

Also known as

grimacing facecringeyikes

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Used in combos

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Emoji names around the world

English: grimacing faceالعربية وجه متجهم español cara haciendo una mueca português rosto expressando desagrado हिन्दी मुंह बनाता चेहरा Indonesia wajah menyeringai

Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.

Quick facts

Code points: U+1F62C
Unicode name: grimacing face
Category: Smileys & EmotionNeutral & skeptical faces
Unicode: 8.0 · 2015Emoji 1.0Unicode history
Keywords: awk awkward dentist face grimace grimacing grinning smile smiling emoji meaning mean

Developer

Single code point

Unicode data

Code pointsU+1F62C

Unicode namegrimacing face

UTF-8F0 9F 98 AC

Shortcodes

Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack):grimacing_face:

HTML & CSS

HTML (hex)😬

HTML (decimal)😬

CSS\1F62C

Languages

JavaScript\u{1F62C}

Python\U0001F62C

Perl\x{1F62C}

PHP / Ruby\u{1F62C}

Encodings

Punycodexn--n38h

URL escape code%F0%9F%98%AC

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Open-source artwork under commercially compatible licenses, shown with correct attribution. These are not Apple, Samsung or WhatsApp designs.

Noto Emoji — Licenses & attribution — **Noto Emoji**Google Fonts · SIL OFL 1.1

Twemoji — Licenses & attribution — **Twemoji**Twemoji project · CC BY 4.0

OpenMoji — Licenses & attribution — **OpenMoji**OpenMoji project · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Frequently asked

What does 😬 grimacing face mean?