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😷Face With Medical Mask Emoji
Tagged cold, dentist and dermatologist, 😷 face with medical mask sits in Unicode's Unwell group inside Smileys & Emotion. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+1F637.
What 😷 face with medical mask 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 cold, dentist and dermatologist 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+1F637 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 😷 | |
| HTML decimal | 😷 | |
| CSS | \1F637 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F637} | |
| Python | \U0001F637 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE37 | |
| Rust | \u{1f637} | |
| Swift | \u{1F637} | |
| PHP | \u{1F637} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%98%B7 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 98 B7 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE37 | |
| Base64 | 8J+Ytw== | |
| Decimal | 128567 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 😷
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “face with medical mask”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “cold”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f637and 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 medical mask emoji mean?+
😷 is the face with medical mask emoji, tagged cold, dentist and dermatologist. 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 medical mask is U+1F637. In HTML that is 😷, in CSS \1F637, and in JavaScript \u{1F637}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 😷 emoji added?+
face with medical mask got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). 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 Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😷 face with medical mask.