What is 🫥?

The face with dotted line emoji, represented by the character 🫥, depicts a face with a dotted or dashed outline, often giving the impression of fading away, disappearing, or being invisible.

  • Meaning: It can symbolize invisibility, obscurity, feeling unseen or ignored, or wanting to disappear. It can also represent shyness, loneliness, or a desire to avoid attention. It can also express a feeling of being on the margins or fringe of something.

  • Unicode: Its Unicode name is "Face in the Clouds" but it is more commonly referred to as face with dotted line. It was introduced in Unicode 13.0 in 2020.

  • Usage: People use this emoji in various contexts to convey a sense of absence, hesitation, or a desire to be unnoticed. It can be used literally to describe someone hiding or figuratively to describe a feeling of insignificance.

  • Variations: Due to rendering differences across platforms, the appearance of the dotted line might vary, sometimes appearing as dashes or very small dots.

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