What does 😷 mean?
A face with a medical mask: illness, a cold, a pandemic, staying safe.
Its official Unicode name is FACE WITH MEDICAL MASK and its CLDR short name is "face with medical mask" (in Hungarian: "arc egészségügyi maszkkal"). It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group and was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- cold
- dentist
- dermatologist
- doctor
- dr
- face
- germs
- mask
- medical
- medicine
In Hungarian: arc, beteg, betegség, egészségügyi maszk, gyógyszer, maszk, orvos, 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+1F637. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- FACE WITH MEDICAL MASK
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- arc egészségügyi maszkkal
- English name (CLDR)
- face with medical mask
- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- Group
- Smileys & Emotion · face unwell
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :mask:
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Frequently asked questions
What does the 😷 emoji mean?
A face with a medical mask: illness, a cold, a pandemic, staying safe.
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 "cold".
When was the 😷 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
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.