What 🤨 means
Skeptical doubt — one brow up, asking if you're serious. It's the suspicious face for excuses and claims you're not buying, quieter than 🙄 and less smug than 😏. It can also read as mild surprise, but doubt comes first. A 2015 proposal to Unicode, the body that standardizes emoji, pitched it as a subtler reaction than an eye-roll — skepticism, disbelief or surprise — pointing to similar raised-brow faces already used in Skype and Yahoo chat.
What does it mean when someone sends you 🤨?
They're doubting what you just said. Right after your message it's a deadpan 'come again?' — answer with proof, not attitude.
It can also be aimed at something else on their screen, not you. If it lands on your story and stings, clarify or back it up instead of getting defensive — the read is doubt, not insult.
Deadpan and pointed — playful among friends, accusatory with anyone else.
Sent to a stranger or new contact, it can read as calling them a liar.
What it means when someone sends it to you
5 readingsDon't confuse it with
3Combination ideas
3Worth knowing
- 🤨 is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
2Is it rude to send 🤨?
It can be. Sent alone right after someone's story or excuse, it plays as calling them out — soften it with a few words if that's not the read you want.
Does 🤨 mean flirting?
No. It signals doubt, not interest — the flirty single-eyebrow look belongs to 😏, not this one.
How to type 🤨
:face_with_raised_eyebrow:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.🤨Codes and encoding1 code points
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.