🫣
Face With Peeking Eye Emoji
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Emoji Overview
Unicode Code Point | U+1FAE3 1FAE3 |
Emoji Name | face with peeking eye |
Unicode Version Date Added for Emoji | 14.0September 2021 |
Category | |
Keywords | peekingshycurious |
🫣 Meaning and Explanation
The 🫣 emoji depicts a face with its hands covering its eyes, but with one eye peeking through a gap in the fingers.
This emoji captures the feeling of wanting to look away from something but being unable to resist the temptation to watch. It represents a mix of fear, curiosity, and fascination, often in response to something scary, embarrassing, or cringeworthy.
🫣 How to Use
Use the 🫣 emoji when you are watching something that makes you feel uncomfortable or scared, but you can't help but look. It's perfect for commenting on horror movies, awkward social situations, or dramatic online content.
- When watching a scary movie: "I can't watch this, but I also can't look away 🫣"
- To describe an embarrassing moment: "He tripped on stage, I had to watch through my fingers 🫣"
- To react to cringey content: "This is so awkward, I can't stop watching 🫣"
🫣 Cultural Background
The gesture of covering one's eyes while peeking through the fingers is a universally relatable action, often associated with watching something frightening or embarrassing.
This makes the 🫣 emoji's meaning of morbid curiosity or fearful fascination easily understood across different cultures.