Pleading Face

🥺 has big, watery puppy-dog eyes. It means pleading or begging, and also being deeply touched or finding something adorable.

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Tone

PleadingIt reads as begging softly, or being deeply touched.DBEmoji editorial interpretation

Common uses

DBEmoji editorial interpretation

Asking for a favour
Reacting to something adorable or touching

Technical details

Source: Unicode Consortium

Unicode name: FACE WITH PLEADING EYES
CLDR short name: pleading face
Codepoint: U+1F97A
Hex: 1F97A
Emoji version: 11.0
Unicode version: 11.0
First released: 2018
Unicode group: Smileys & Emotion
Unicode subgroup: face-concerned
Status: Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)

Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built

GitHub shortcode

From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.

:pleading_face:

Keywords

Source: Unicode CLDR

begging · big · eyes · face · mercy · not · pleading · please · pretty · puppy · sad · why

How it looks

Pleading Face — Fluent Color — Fluent Color

Pleading Face — Fluent Flat — Fluent Flat

Your device

Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)

Download as image

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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork

Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of 🥺. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.

Questions people ask

What does the 🥺 pleading face emoji mean?: 🥺 has big, watery puppy-dog eyes. It means pleading or begging, and also being deeply touched or finding something adorable.
What is the Unicode codepoint for 🥺?: U+1F97A, named FACE WITH PLEADING EYES in the Unicode Standard.
When was the 🥺 pleading face emoji released?: It was added in Emoji 11.0, published in 2018, alongside Unicode 11.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
How do I type 🥺 on my phone or computer?: On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “pleading face”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🥺 from this page with one click.
What is the shortcode for 🥺?: On GitHub, type :pleading_face: and it turns into 🥺 — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.