Emoji dictionary
🥺 Pleading Face Emoji
or Face With Pleading Eyes emoji [ plee-ding feys ih-moh-jee ]
What does 🥺 Pleading Face emoji mean?
The Pleading Face emoji 🥺 depicts a yellow face with large puppy-dog eyes and a small frown. It is meant to represent the typical face one makes when pleading—that is, trying to win compassion or sympathy.
Besides conveying such acts as pleading, begging, or beseeching, the Pleading Face emoji 🥺 also variously conveys sadness, guilt, cuteness, and even arousal.
Where does 🥺 Pleading Face Emoji come from?
The Pleading Face emoji 🥺, officially called Face With Pleading Eyes emoji 🥺, was approved under Unicode 11.0 in 2018. On all major platforms, the emoji resembles a yellow, smiley-styled face with big, watery, mournful eyes with upturned eyebrows and a little, pouting frown. On most platforms, the eyes of the emoji are black, but Twitter’s design notably features orange and brown eyes.
The face is meant to resemble the expression of puppy-dog eyes (a term which dates back to the early 1900s), attributed to cute animals or young children who are begging for something, trying to win someone over, or showing remorse in an irresistible way.
While a relatively new member of the emoji family, the Pleading Face emoji 🥺 is extraordinarily popular. According to Emojipedia, the Pleading Face emoji 🥺 was the third most used emoji on Twitter in 2020, behind (but growing on) Face With Tears of Joy emoji 😂 and Loudly Crying Face emoji 😭.
Examples of 🥺 Pleading Face Emoji
Who uses 🥺 Pleading Face Emoji?
As its name suggests, the Pleading Face emoji 🥺 is often used when a person is begging or pleading for something, such as asking for forgiveness or a favor. This versatile emoji is also used to convey a range of other emotions, such as showing remorse, affection, hurt, fear—or sometimes just being cute and silly.
winter please hurry up this heat is not for me , pls i beg 🥺
— sunny (@offgunlog) August 16, 2023
Had a pretty rough day, send me cute puppy pictures 🥺 kitties are okay too ha
— sketchwanaldee🧑🏽🎨 (@jwanaldee) January 12, 2020
im scared for my first day of class tmrw what if they hate me😔🥺
— aul (@dawayibeclownin) October 17, 2020
The emoji, however, is also involved in many not-so-innocent acts online (e.g., soliciting or posting adult photos or videos) or making lustier feelings known to the timeline.
Tell your wife to send me nudes
🥺👉👈— Velvet Heaven (@Velvet_Crushed) August 11, 2023
Highly stressed 🥺 I need Thicc Thighs
— MG (@Snalo_MGG) May 5, 2022
Note
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