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🫡Saluting Face Emoji
Unicode added 🫡 saluting face in Emoji 14.0 (2021), filed under Smileys & Emotion → With Hands. Its codepoint is U+1FAE1, and it is tagged face, good and luck.
What 🫡 saluting face 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 face, good and luck 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+1FAE1 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🫡 | |
| HTML decimal | 🫡 | |
| CSS | \1FAE1 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1FAE1} | |
| Python | \U0001FAE1 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDEE1 | |
| Rust | \u{1fae1} | |
| Swift | \u{1FAE1} | |
| PHP | \u{1FAE1} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%AB%A1 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F AB A1 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DEE1 | |
| Base64 | 8J+roQ== | |
| Decimal | 129761 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 14.0 (2021) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🫡
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “saluting face”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “face”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1fae1and 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 🫡 saluting face emoji mean?+
🫡 is the saluting face emoji, tagged face, good and luck. 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 🫡?+
saluting face is U+1FAE1. In HTML that is 🫡, in CSS \1FAE1, and in JavaScript \u{1FAE1}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🫡 emoji added?+
saluting face 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 🫡 saluting face.