“🤫” meaning: shushing face, hush Emoji

This mysterious character features a round, yellow face with one finger pressed to its lips, signaling silence or secrecy, as if saying "Shh!" or "Shush!" for silence. This is the universal gesture of requesting silence or indicating that something should be kept secret.

This emoji can convey a sense of secrecy, discretion, or confidentiality. You can use it to ask someone to be quiet or not to tell anyone something or to share a secret or a gossip with someone. In addition, it can be used to convey a request for quiet. Putting this emoji in text can also add a sense of mystery and anticipation to the text.

This emoji has a few close relatives in the emoji family, such as 🤭(Face with Hand Over Mouth) and 🤐 (Zipper-Mouth Face). While all three emojis convey a sense of secrecy or discretion, 🤫 specifically emphasizes the request for silence or the need to keep something confidential.

The emoji 🤫 was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 and added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017