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🫣Face With Peeking Eye Emoji
The face with peeking eye emoji 🫣 carries the codepoint U+1FAE3 and has been in the standard since Emoji 14.0 (2021). It belongs to Smileys & Emotion → With Hands.
What 🫣 face with peeking eye means
Hands over the mouth do the work of a stage whisper - gasping at gossip, covering a laugh, or admitting something you probably should not have said. 🤔 has drifted from genuine deliberation into pointed skepticism, the emoji equivalent of a slow blink. 🫢 and 🫣, added in 2021, cover the peeking-through-fingers reaction that older faces could not.
Unicode tags this one captivated, embarrass and eye and files it under Smileys & Emotion → With Hands.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1FAE3 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🫣 | |
| HTML decimal | 🫣 | |
| CSS | \1FAE3 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAE3} | |
| Python | \U0001FAE3 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDEE3 | |
| Rust | \u{1fae3} | |
| Swift | \u{1FAE3} | |
| PHP | \u{1FAE3} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AB%A3 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AB A3 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DEE3 | |
| Base64 | 8J+row== | |
| Decimal | 129763 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 14.0 (2021) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🫣
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “face with peeking eye”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “captivated”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fae3and Enter. - HTML — paste
🫣.
How 🫣 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🫣Apple
- 🫣Segoe
- 🫣Noto
- 🫣System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🫣 face with peeking eye emoji mean?+
🫣 is the face with peeking eye emoji, tagged captivated, embarrass and eye. Hands over the mouth do the work of a stage whisper - gasping at gossip, covering a laugh, or admitting something you probably should not have said. 🤔 has drifted from genuine deliberation into pointed skepticism, the emoji equivalent of a slow blink. 🫢 and 🫣, added in 2021, cover the peeking-through-fingers reaction that older faces could not.
What is the Unicode code for 🫣?+
face with peeking eye is U+1FAE3. In HTML that is 🫣, in CSS \1FAE3, and in JavaScript \u{1FAE3}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🫣 emoji added?+
face with peeking eye got its emoji presentation in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from With Hands in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Emoji 14.0 (2021)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🫣 face with peeking eye.