What does 🤧 mean?
A sneezing face with tissue: a cold, allergies, feeling under the weather.
Its official Unicode name is SNEEZING FACE and its CLDR short name is "sneezing face" (in Hungarian: "tüsszentő arc"). It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group and was added in Emoji 3.0 in 2016.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- face
- fever
- flu
- gesundheit
- sick
- sneeze
- sneezing
In Hungarian: arc, beteg, fej, fújja az orrát, hapci, meg van fázva, megfázott, szmájli, tüsszent, tüsszentő
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+1F927. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- SNEEZING FACE
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- tüsszentő arc
- English name (CLDR)
- sneezing face
- Emoji version
- Emoji 3.0 (2016)
- Group
- Smileys & Emotion · face unwell
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :sneezing_face:
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Frequently asked questions
What does the 🤧 emoji mean?
A sneezing face with tissue: a cold, allergies, feeling under the weather.
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 "face".
When was the 🤧 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 3.0 (2016), 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.