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🥶Cold Face Emoji
The cold face emoji 🥶 carries the codepoint U+1F976 and has been in the standard since Emoji 11.0 (2018). It belongs to Smileys & Emotion → Unwell.
What 🥶 cold face means
Illness, injury, and physical overwhelm, plus the ones people use metaphorically: 🤯 for astonishment, 🥵 for heat or attraction, 🤢 for disgust at an opinion rather than a smell. 😷 predates the pandemic by a decade - it comes from the Japanese habit of masking when you have a cold - but its usage climbed sharply from 2020.
Unicode tags this one blue, blue-faced and cold and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Unwell.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F976 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🥶 | |
| HTML decimal | 🥶 | |
| CSS | \1F976 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F976} | |
| Python | \U0001F976 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD76 | |
| Rust | \u{1f976} | |
| Swift | \u{1F976} | |
| PHP | \u{1F976} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A5%B6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A5 B6 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD76 | |
| Base64 | 8J+ltg== | |
| Decimal | 129398 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 11.0 (2018) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🥶
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “cold face”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “blue”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f976and Enter. - HTML — paste
🥶.
How 🥶 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🥶Apple
- 🥶Segoe
- 🥶Noto
- 🥶System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🥶 cold face emoji mean?+
🥶 is the cold face emoji, tagged blue, blue-faced and cold. Illness, injury, and physical overwhelm, plus the ones people use metaphorically: 🤯 for astonishment, 🥵 for heat or attraction, 🤢 for disgust at an opinion rather than a smell. 😷 predates the pandemic by a decade - it comes from the Japanese habit of masking when you have a cold - but its usage climbed sharply from 2020.
What is the Unicode code for 🥶?+
cold face is U+1F976. In HTML that is 🥶, in CSS \1F976, and in JavaScript \u{1F976}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🥶 emoji added?+
cold face got its emoji presentation in Emoji 11.0 (2018). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Unwell in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Emoji 11.0 (2018)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🥶 cold face.