Grimacing face
Emoji 1.0 ยท Smileys & Emotion ยท :grimacing:
Also known as: awk, awkward, dentist, face, grimace, grimacing, grinning, smile, smiling, nervous, yikes, anxious
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Grimacing face Means
People reach for ๐ฌ when they mean awk, awkward, dentist, face, grimace and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Grimacing face is one of the smileys & emotion emoji, alongside ๐ค ๐คจ ๐ ๐ ๐ถ and 10 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Grimacing face was added in 2015 as part of Emoji 1.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ฌ is the single code point U+1F62C, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :grimacing:.
How To Use ๐ฌ
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ฌ๐ค๐คจ and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :grimacing: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.