A yellow face with a hand covering its mouth. Apple and Facebook feature simple, open eyes, suggesting someone gasping Oh my! in serious surprise, shock, concern, or apology. Other platforms depict a face with smiling eyes and/or blushing cheeks, suggesting coy laughter or embarrassment, as if cheekily saying Oops!
May be used to similar effect as ๐ Speak-No-Evil Monkey. See also ๐ค Zipper-Mouth Face. Joins ๐ค Hugging Face, ๐ค Thinking Face, and ๐คซ Shushing Face as one of the few smileys featuring hands.
Facebook's design previously featured smiling eyes and mouth.
Face With Hand Over Mouth was approved as part of Unicode 10.0 in 2017 under the name โSmiling Face With Smiling Eyes and Hand Covering Mouthโ and added to Emoji 5.0 in 2017.