What does 🤮 mean?
Face vomiting: strong disgust, 'this makes me sick'.
Its official Unicode name is FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH VOMITING and its CLDR short name is "face vomiting" (in Hungarian: "hányó arc"). It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group and was added in Emoji 5.0 in 2017.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- barf
- ew
- face
- gross
- puke
- sick
- spew
- throw
- up
- vomit
In Hungarian: arc, beteg, hány, kidobja a taccsot, köp, öklendezik, rosszul van, szmájli
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws 🤮 in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F92E. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- FACE WITH OPEN MOUTH VOMITING
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- hányó arc
- English name (CLDR)
- face vomiting
- Emoji version
- Emoji 5.0 (2017)
- Group
- Smileys & Emotion · face unwell
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :vomiting_face:
Related emojis
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🤮 emoji mean?
Face vomiting: strong disgust, 'this makes me sick'.
How do I type the 🤮 emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "barf".
When was the 🤮 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 5.0 (2017).
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.