U+1F636 · emoji since 2015
No mouth, no comment. This face is speechlessness itself: stunned silence, biting your tongue, or having nothing safe to say.
It's the reaction when words would only make it worse. The silence is extremely loud.
In texting, 😶 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 😶 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Face Without Mouth emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the face without mouth emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 😶 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.