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Pleading Face emoji 🥺

🥺 is the Pleading Face emoji, in Smileys & People. It arrived in Emoji 11.0 (2018). People look for it with words like begging, mercy, cry, tears, sad.

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:pleading_face:

Paste it with Ctrl + V, or Command + V on a Mac.

What 🥺 means

Puppy dog eyes: begging, feeling touched, or "aww".

Every code for 🥺

NamePleading Face
Shortcodes:pleading_face:
CategorySmileys & People
Emoji versionEmoji 11.0 (2018)
Keywordsbegging, mercy, cry, tears, sad, grievance
Code pointsU+1F97A
HTML🥺
CSS\1F97A
JavaScript\u{1F97A}
Python\U0001f97a
UTF-8 bytesF0 9F A5 BA
URL encoded%F0%9F%A5%BA

How to type 🥺

Without copying it, on every device.

WhereHow
Chrome, any websiteWith Use Emoji, type :pleading_face: in any text box and it turns into 🥺.
WindowsPress Windows + . (period) to open the emoji panel, type "pleading face" and press Enter.
MacPress Control + Command + Space (or fn / Globe + E), type "pleading face" and press Return.
ChromebookPress Search + Shift + Space to open the emoji picker and type "pleading face".
iPhone and AndroidSwitch to the emoji keyboard and search for "pleading face".
HTMLWrite 🥺 in the page source.

Questions

About 🥺

Short answers to the questions people ask most.

What does 🥺 mean?
Puppy dog eyes: begging, feeling touched, or "aww".
What is the shortcode for 🥺?
:pleading_face:. With Use Emoji it works in any text box in Chrome, on the sites you turn it on for. Slack, Discord and GitHub use similar codes, so it often works there too.
How do I type 🥺 on Windows or Mac?
On Windows press Windows + . (period), on a Mac Control + Command + Space, then type "pleading face". On a Chromebook press Search + Shift + Space.
What is the Unicode for 🥺?
U+1F97A, added in Emoji 11.0 (2018). In HTML write 🥺, in CSS "\1F97A", and in JavaScript "\u{1F97A}".

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