😬Grimacing Face Emoji

Unicode added 😬 grimacing face in Emoji 1.0 (2015), filed under Smileys & Emotion → Neutral / Skeptical. Its codepoint is U+1F62C, and it is tagged awk, awkward and dentist.

What 😬 grimacing face means

Flat affect as a message in itself. 😐 and 😑 register that a thing happened and you have nothing kind to say about it; 🙄 and 🤨 push that into open doubt. The subgroup keeps growing in the awkward direction - 🫥 dotted line face, added in 2021, stands for feeling invisible or checked out entirely.

Unicode tags this one awk, awkward and dentist and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Neutral / Skeptical.

Copy variants

Different presentations of the same character — useful when a platform renders one form and not the other.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F62C`
HTML hex	`😬`
HTML decimal	`😬`
CSS	`\1F62C`
JavaScript	`\u{1F62C}`
Python	`\U0001F62C`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE2C`
Rust	`\u{1f62c}`
Swift	`\u{1F62C}`
PHP	`\u{1F62C}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%AC`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 AC`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE2C`
Base64	`8J+YrA==`
Decimal	`128556`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Keywords

awk
awkward
dentist
face
grimace
grimacing
grinning
smile
smiling

Appears in these collections

How to type 😬

Windows — press Win + . and search “grimacing face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “awk”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f62c and 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 😬 grimacing face emoji mean?+

😬 is the grimacing face emoji, tagged awk, awkward and dentist. Flat affect as a message in itself. 😐 and 😑 register that a thing happened and you have nothing kind to say about it; 🙄 and 🤨 push that into open doubt. The subgroup keeps growing in the awkward direction - 🫥 dotted line face, added in 2021, stands for feeling invisible or checked out entirely.

What is the Unicode code for 😬?+

grimacing face is U+1F62C. In HTML that is 😬, in CSS \1F62C, and in JavaScript \u{1F62C}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😬 emoji added?+

grimacing face got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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.

Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😬 grimacing face.