꒰ ៸៸⪫𝅒⪪៸៸ ꒱

Flushed cheeks, eyes squeezed shut, mouth open in a little laugh: this is what being pleased and a bit bashful about it looks like. The eyes are ⪫ and ⪪ (LARGER THAN and SMALLER THAN), math symbols that look a lot like > and <. In this site's font each has a horizontal stroke running from its open side to its point, which turns them into tightly closed eyes. They are nearly as tall as the brackets and are the biggest parts of the face. Between them sits the mouth, 𝅒 (MUSICAL SYMBOL MOON NOTEHEAD WHITE), one of the shapes used for note heads in music notation. Here it's a small hollow half-circle, flat on top and round underneath, only about half the height of the eyes and lined up with their bottoms, so it reads as a small mouth open in a laugh. Right outside each eye is ៸៸, two copies of KHMER SYMBOL LEK ATTAK PRAM-BEI, a sign from the Khmer script drawn as a short slanted stroke; the pairs sit low and make blushing cheeks. The frame is ꒰ ꒱ (YI RADICAL SHY and YI RADICAL VEP), radicals from the Yi script that bulge like an ε on the left and a 3 on the right. There is one space between each bracket and its cheek, while the cheeks, eyes and mouth touch with no gaps. On August 31, 2026, it was one of a row of decorated faces in a post on X, followed by a peace sign emoji and a gold medal emoji. Our collection has 188 faces with ៸៸ cheeks and only one other face, (⪫⩌⪪), with ⪫ ⪪ eyes, but none besides this one uses 𝅒. Send it when something went well and you're proud, but a little shy about saying so.