If you wish to let someone know that you aren’t speaking about something, then this face by itself is usually an effective conversation deterrent. The face can also be used to reassure someone who has just divulged a secret to you. Let’s say your friend tells you that they are seeing someone but doesn’t want other people to know. You could say: Not saying a word 🤐 In the context of telling someone to keep quiet, you may need to accompany the emoji with some additional text to completely get the message across. Let’s say your friend is poking fun at your brand new stylish trainers. You could say: Shut it 🤐

Zipper-Mouth was approved in Unicode 6.0 and approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the same update that saw Neutral Face, Grinning Squinting Face and CWL Face join the emoji family