The shh emoji is Shushing face, U+1F92B. It leads 60: the eight emoji CLDR files under shh, quiet, silent or mute, four more under secret, locks and spies, volume controls, shh in ten languages, text faces and 12 combos.
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Search for a quieter one
Search reads Unicode names and CLDR's search words, so whisper brings up Face exhaling and tmi finds Hear-no-evil monkey alone. Pick a skin tone under More options and Ninja, Detective and Ear follow it, and so do three of the combos.
Quiet and secret are filed separately
CLDR gives the word shh to two emoji only: Shushing face and Hear-no-evil monkey. For secret emoji copy and paste the list is different. Zipper-mouth face and Face without mouth carry both words, Face with hand over mouth carries secret but not quiet, and Japanese โsecretโ button is the only emoji with the word in its name.
Tips
To hush a phone, not a person, send Bell with slash, which CLDR files under mute, quiet and silent.
์ฟ is Korean and chut is French, both taken from Wiktionary's translations of shh. The first needs a Hangul font. The second needs nothing.
:-X is plain ASCII and arrives anywhere. หขสฐสฐ is three modifier letters, so a device without them shows empty boxes where the whisper was.
Questions and answers
Which emoji is the shh emoji?
Shushing face, U+1F92B: one finger across closed lips. Its formal Unicode name is Face with finger covering closed lips, and CLDR files it under quiet, shh, shush and shushing. It dates from Emoji 5.0. The emoji list gives it no skin tones, finger included.
What is the difference between the shh face and the zipped mouth?
By CLDR's words, one asks and the other promises. Shushing face is filed under quiet, shh and shush, not secret. Zipper-mouth face is filed under secret, keep, shut, zip and quiet. Send the finger to hush someone else, the zip when you will not tell.
Why are there two faces with a hand over the mouth?
They are filed differently. Face with hand over mouth is from Emoji 5.0, under giggle, oops and secret. Face with open eyes and hand over mouth is from Emoji 14.0, under gasp, shock and quiet, and an older device shows an empty box.
๐Bell with slashU+1F515. No bell. CLDR lists mute, quiet and silent, the words a phone uses. Emoji 1.0.
๐ซขFace with open eyes and hand over mouthU+1FAE2. A gasp with a hand over it. CLDR files it under quiet as well as gasp, omg and shock. From Emoji 14.0. Emoji 14.0.
๐ถFace without mouthU+1F636. Nothing to say and nothing to say it with. CLDR lists mute, silent, silence, speechless and secret. Emoji 1.0.
๐Hear-no-evil monkeyU+1F649. The only emoji besides Shushing face that CLDR files under shh. It also gets secret and tmi. Emoji 0.6.
๐Muted speakerU+1F507. A speaker with a line through it. CLDR lists mute, muted, quiet and silent. Emoji 1.0.
๐คซShushing faceU+1F92B. The shh itself: a finger on closed lips. CLDR lists quiet, shh, shush and shushing, and its formal Unicode name is Face with finger covering closed lips. Emoji 5.0.
๐Speak-no-evil monkeyU+1F64A. Both hands over the mouth. CLDR lists quiet, secret, oops and stealth. Emoji 0.6.
๐คZipper-mouth faceU+1F910. The one that keeps a secret. CLDR lists secret, quiet, keep, shut and zip. Emoji 1.0.
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Filed under secret 4
๐คญFace with hand over mouthU+1F92D. A giggle behind a hand. CLDR files it under secret, next to giggle, oops and whoops, but not under quiet. Emoji 5.0.
ใ๏ธJapanese โsecretโ buttonU+3299 U+FE0F. The only emoji with secret in its name. It is the character U+3299, Circled ideograph secret, and the ideograph in the circle is the first of the Japanese word for a secret. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฅทNinjaU+1F977. CLDR lists secret, hidden, sly and stealth. From Emoji 13.0, and it takes a skin tone. Emoji 13.0.
๐See-no-evil monkeyU+1F648. Covers its eyes, not its mouth. CLDR lists secret and hide, then embarrassed and omg. Emoji 0.6.
Hiding, spying and locked away 8
๐ต๏ธDetectiveU+1F575 U+FE0F. CLDR lists three words: detective, sleuth and spy. It takes a skin tone and has a plain text form. Emoji 0.7.
๐ฅธDisguised faceU+1F978. Glasses, nose and moustache. The only emoji CLDR files under incognito, and it gets spy as well. Emoji 13.0.
๐ซฅDotted line faceU+1FAE5. A face going out of sight. CLDR lists hidden, hide, invisible and disappear. From Emoji 14.0. Emoji 14.0.
๐ซฃFace with peeking eyeU+1FAE3. Watching through its fingers. CLDR lists hide, hiding, peek and peep. From Emoji 14.0. Emoji 14.0.
๐LockedU+1F512. The only emoji CLDR files under private. Emoji 0.6.
๐Locked with keyU+1F510. Locked, and the key is right there. CLDR lists secure. Emoji 0.6.
๐Locked with penU+1F50F. The only emoji CLDR files under privacy. The pen is a nib. Emoji 0.6.
๐๏ธOld keyU+1F5DD U+FE0F. CLDR files it under clue, which makes it the key to a mystery, not to a door. Emoji 0.7.
Volume, whispers and reasons to hush 9
๐BooksU+1F4DA. The library, where shh is house style. CLDR files library under five book emoji and this is the stack. Emoji 0.6.
๐EarU+1F442. For listening in. CLDR lists hear, hearing, listen and listening. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฎโ๐จFace exhalingU+1F62E U+200D U+1F4A8. The only emoji CLDR files under whisper. It is Face with open mouth joined to Dashing away, from Emoji 13.1, so an older device shows the two parts. Emoji 13.1.
๐ขLoudspeakerU+1F4E2. The other emoji CLDR files under loud. For whoever needs shushing. Emoji 0.6.
๐Person tipping handU+1F481. CLDR files gossip under this one and its man and woman forms, and nowhere else. Emoji 0.6.
๐ดSleeping faceU+1F634. Someone is asleep. CLDR lists nap, bedtime, goodnight and zzz. Emoji 1.0.
๐Speaker high volumeU+1F50A. Three sound waves, and the reason for the shh. CLDR lists loud. Emoji 0.6.
๐Speaker low volumeU+1F508. One step above mute. The only speaker CLDR files under soft. Emoji 0.7.
๐Wrapped giftU+1F381. A reason to keep quiet until the day. CLDR lists surprise, present and birthday. Emoji 0.6.
Shh in other languages 11
ัััRussian, in Cyrillic: tss
ใใผใฃJapanese, in hiragana with a long-vowel mark
ๅMandarin: one character, romanised by Wiktionary as xลซ or shฤซ
์ฟKorean: one Hangul syllable, which Wiktionary defines as shh, requesting silence
chitรณnSpanish
chutFrench
psstEnglish, for the opposite job: Wiktionary says it implies secret or whispered information is coming
pstGerman. Wiktionary gives the same word for Czech and Slovak
shhEnglish. Wiktionary defines it as demanding silence, and gives sh, shhh and ssh as other spellings
ลลลTurkish: three of the letter s with a cedilla
zittoItalian
Sealed lips in plain text 8
( ยดะด)๏พ๏ฝฟ(ยดะ๏ฝ)๏พ๏ฝฟ(ะ๏ฝ)Three faces passing it on. Wikipedia records it as whispers, from a Japanese message board. The sound between them is hiso, in halfwidth katakana
:-#A number sign for a mouth, from the same row: braces, or stitches
:-&An ampersand for a mouth, from the same row: a tongue in a knot
หขสฐสฐShh in three modifier letters, small enough to count as a whisper
โโโโโโA redaction bar: six Full block characters, U+2588
:-XSealed lips. Wikipediaโs list has it in a row of six labelled sealed lips, wearing braces, tongue-tied. ASCII
:XThe same without a nose
(โขxโข)Two bullets and an x where the mouth was. This siteโs own
Shh combos 12
๐คซ๐คBetween usShushing face, then handshake. A secret with terms. The handshake follows the skin tone you pick.
๐คซ๐Library voiceShushing face, then books. CLDR files Books under library.
๐ค๐My lips are sealedZipper-mouth face, then locked. Zipped, then locked.
๐คซ๐ฌNo spoilersShushing face, then clapper board. CLDR files Clapper board under movie.
๐คซ๐๐Not a word about the partyShushing face, then wrapped gift, then party popper. Tell no one until the popper goes. CLDR files Wrapped gift under surprise.
๐ฑ๐Phone on silentMobile phone, then bell with slash. For the cinema, the meeting and the library.
๐๐๐See, hear, speak no evilSee-no-evil monkey, then hear-no-evil monkey, then speak-no-evil monkey. All three monkeys, in the order of their names. CLDR files every one of them under secret.
๐คซ๐ถ๐คShh, the baby is asleepShushing face, then baby, then ZZZ. The original use case. The baby follows the skin tone you pick.
๐ซ๐ซSpill itTeapot, then pouring liquid. The opposite of shh. CLDR files Teapot under tea and Pouring liquid under spill.
๐ใ๏ธTop secret, literallyTOP arrow, then Japanese โsecretโ button. TOP arrow, then the button that says secret.
๐๐คซ๐Turn it downSpeaker high volume, then shushing face, then speaker low volume. From loud to soft, by CLDRโs words, with a shh in between.
๐คซ๐Whisper itShushing face, then ear. A finger on the lips, then the ear it is meant for. The ear follows the skin tone you pick.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 29 single emoji, their names, code points, skin tones and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names in sentence case. The search words are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml, main branch). Group one is mechanical: every emoji CLDR lists under shh, shush, shushing, hush, quiet, silent, silence, mute or muted, which is 8. Group two is every other emoji it lists under secret, which is 4; four emoji in group one carry that word too. The formal names (Face with finger covering closed lips, Circled ideograph secret and the ideograph U+79D8 inside it) are from UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), which also checked every character in the text items. Text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). The words in other languages are from Wiktionary's entry shh (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/shh), whose table of translations is headed requesting silence; psst is from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/psst, and the meaning of hisohiso, in a whisper, from https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ใฒใใฒใ. The four ASCII faces are from one row of six at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons, labelled sealed lips, wearing braces, tongue-tied and paired there with Zipper-mouth face and Face without mouth; Wikipedia types their noses with a non-breaking hyphen, and this list uses the ASCII hyphen. The whispering faces are recorded in the same article among emoticons from a Japanese message board. The other 17 emoji, three text items and the 12 combos with their names are this site's own choice, each tied to the subject by a CLDR word quoted in its note. All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work (the selection, the combo names and the wording are ours; emoji names, sequences and search words come from Unicode's data files and CLDR, under the Unicode License v3; facts from Wikipedia and Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in our own words and credited in source)