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🤕Face With Head-Bandage Emoji
🤕 face with head-bandage — U+1F915, added in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Unicode groups it with the other 12 unwell emojis under Smileys & Emotion.
What 🤕 face with head-bandage 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 bandage, face and head-bandage 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+1F915 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🤕 | |
| HTML decimal | 🤕 | |
| CSS | \1F915 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F915} | |
| Python | \U0001F915 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD15 | |
| Rust | \u{1f915} | |
| Swift | \u{1F915} | |
| PHP | \u{1F915} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A4%95 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A4 95 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD15 | |
| Base64 | 8J+klQ== | |
| Decimal | 129301 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
- bandage
- face
- head-bandage
- hurt
- injury
- ouch
Appears in these collections
How to type 🤕
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “face with head-bandage”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “bandage”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f915and 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 with head-bandage emoji mean?+
🤕 is the face with head-bandage emoji, tagged bandage, face and head-bandage. 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 🤕?+
face with head-bandage is U+1F915. In HTML that is 🤕, in CSS \1F915, and in JavaScript \u{1F915}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🤕 emoji added?+
face with head-bandage got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🤕 face with head-bandage.