🤨 means The face-with-raised-eyebrow emoji. It's mostly used in casual online conversation. It's casual and generally safe with friends and online. It's standard online vocabulary; nothing inherently concerning about hearing it.
🤨
The face-with-raised-eyebrow emoji.
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#1·Apr 24, 2026Global
The face-with-raised-eyebrow emoji. Skepticism, mild suspicion, or "wait, what?" Perfect reaction when a friend drops a questionable claim in the group chat that you want to question without typing out "what the hell."
Origin: Unicode 11.0, 2018.
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🤨 means The face-with-raised-eyebrow emoji. It's mostly used in casual online conversation. It's casual and generally safe with friends and online. It's standard online vocabulary; nothing inherently concerning about hearing it.
For ESL learners
"🤨" is slang. It means: The face-with-raised-eyebrow emoji. Register: casual. Use it in: casual conversation and online posts. Avoid in: formal writing and professional emails.
Cluster: disapproval
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