This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F62F offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character βhushed faceβ for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: face, hushed, stunned, surprised.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with Variation Selector-15: π―οΈ See the Emojipedia for more details on this characterβs emoji properties.
On Youtube this character is sometimes wrongly displayed as U0001f62f.
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Surprise () is a brief mental and physiological state, a startle response experienced by animals and humans as the result of an unexpected event. Surprise can have any valence; that is, it can be neutral/moderate, pleasant, unpleasant, positive, or negative. Surprise can occur in varying levels of intensity ranging from very-surprised, which may induce the fight-or-flight response, or little-surprise that elicits a less intense response to the stimuli.