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😶‍🌫️Face In Clouds Emoji

Q: What does the 😶🌫️ face in clouds emoji mean?

😶🌫️ is the face in clouds emoji, tagged absentminded, clouds and face. Flat affect as a message in itself. 😐 and 😑 register that a thing happened and you have nothing kind to say about it; 🙄 and 🤨 push that into open doubt. The subgroup keeps growing in the awkward direction - 🫥 dotted line face, added in 2021, stands for feeling invisible or checked out entirely.

😶‍🌫️ is the face in clouds emoji, U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F, one of 16 in the Neutral / Skeptical set. It arrived with Emoji 13.1 (2020) and is commonly used for absentminded, clouds and face.

What 😶‍🌫️ face in clouds means

Flat affect as a message in itself. 😐 and 😑 register that a thing happened and you have nothing kind to say about it; 🙄 and 🤨 push that into open doubt. The subgroup keeps growing in the awkward direction - 🫥 dotted line face, added in 2021, stands for feeling invisible or checked out entirely.

Unicode tags this one absentminded, clouds and face and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Neutral / Skeptical.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How 😶‍🌫️ is built

This is a sequence: separate characters fused with zero-width joiners. A platform that has not implemented the sequence shows the individual parts side by side instead.

😶U+1F636face without mouth
·U+200DZero-width joiner
🌫U+1F32Bfog
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`😶‍🌫️`
HTML decimal	`😶‍🌫️`
CSS	`\1F636\200D\1F32B\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{1F636}\u{200D}\u{1F32B}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0001F636\U0000200D\U0001F32B\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE36\u200D\uD83C\uDF2B\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{1f636}\u{200d}\u{1f32b}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{1F636}\u{200D}\u{1F32B}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{1F636}\u{200D}\u{1F32B}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%B6%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8C%AB%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 B6 E2 80 8D F0 9F 8C AB EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE36 200D D83C DF2B FE0F`
Base64	`8J+YtuKAjfCfjKvvuI8=`
Decimal	`128566 8205 127787 65039`
Introduced	Emoji 13.1 (2020)

Keywords

absentminded
clouds
face
fog
head

Appears in these collections

How to type 😶‍🌫️

Windows — press Win + . and search “face in clouds”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “absentminded”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f636 and 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 😶‍🌫️ face in clouds emoji mean?+

😶‍🌫️ is the face in clouds emoji, tagged absentminded, clouds and face. Flat affect as a message in itself. 😐 and 😑 register that a thing happened and you have nothing kind to say about it; 🙄 and 🤨 push that into open doubt. The subgroup keeps growing in the awkward direction - 🫥 dotted line face, added in 2021, stands for feeling invisible or checked out entirely.

What is the Unicode code for 😶‍🌫️?+

face in clouds is U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F. In HTML that is 😶‍🌫️, in CSS \1F636\200D\1F32B\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{1F636}\u{200D}\u{1F32B}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😶‍🌫️ emoji added?+

face in clouds got its emoji presentation in Emoji 13.1 (2020). 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.

Added in Emoji 13.1 (2020)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😶‍🌫️ face in clouds.