What does ๐ Mouth mean?
Just lips, nothing else: the emoji stands for kissing, lipstick and makeup, speaking, and sometimes flirting. It appears in beauty posts, in the ๐๏ธ๐๐๏ธ face meme, and with phrases like โread my lipsโ or โmy lips are sealedโ. For a kiss specifically, ๐ (the kiss mark) is the more common choice, while ๐ focuses on the mouth itself.
๐ Mouth is an emoji from the People & Body category (body parts), added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010. People use it in messages about beauty, body, kiss, kissing, lips and lipstick.
Example messages
๐ Mouth on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Mouth looks on each platform.
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How do I copy and paste the Mouth emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and ๐ is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :lips:.
When was the Mouth emoji added?
๐ Mouth was added in Emoji 0.6, released in 2010. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does ๐ look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Mouth. The underlying code (U+1F444) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their deviceโs style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.