🥸 Disguised face
🥸 Emoji meaning
I'm going incognito! Hide identity, carnival, Groucho mask.
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🥸 Meaning
With funny glasses, fake eyebrows, a bulbous nose and a glued-on mustache, the 🥸 emoji shows a disguised face. This emoji is used to indicate that someone wants to hide their identity or intentions. It can also express a desire to get to the bottom of something without being recognized. Additionally, it is a symbol of carnival, where people dress up and take on different roles. The characteristics of this disguised face come from the “Groucho mask“ or “Groucho glasses“, designed in reference to the caricature of Julius Henry Marx in the Marx Brothers films. These humorous films were very popular in the 1930s and 1940s, and the mask has been a staple of novelty stores since the 1940s.
Examples
- What a disguise! 🥸
- Do you still recognize me? 🥸
- I'm dropping by incognito today. 🥸
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Commonly confused with
Same Emotion
Disguised face vs face with monocle; both quirky, analytical or humorous detail on an otherwise neutral face.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Disguised face” was approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.0 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 12.1 and Unicode 12.1 in 2019 there was 1 change.
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