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😵💫Face With Spiral Eyes Emoji
Unicode added 😵💫 face with spiral eyes in Emoji 13.1 (2020), filed under Smileys & Emotion → Unwell. Its codepoint is U+1F635 U+200D U+1F4AB, and it is tagged confused, dizzy and eyes.
What 😵💫 face with spiral eyes 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 confused, dizzy and eyes and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Unwell.
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+1F635face with crossed-out eyes
- ·U+200DZero-width joiner
- 💫U+1F4ABdizzy
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F635 U+200D U+1F4AB | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 😵‍💫 | |
| HTML decimal | 😵‍💫 | |
| CSS | \1F635\200D\1F4AB | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F635}\u{200D}\u{1F4AB} | |
| Python | \U0001F635\U0000200D\U0001F4AB | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE35\u200D\uD83D\uDCAB | |
| Rust | \u{1f635}\u{200d}\u{1f4ab} | |
| Swift | \u{1F635}\u{200D}\u{1F4AB} | |
| PHP | \u{1F635}\u{200D}\u{1F4AB} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%98%B5%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%92%AB | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 98 B5 E2 80 8D F0 9F 92 AB | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE35 200D D83D DCAB | |
| Base64 | 8J+YteKAjfCfkqs= | |
| Decimal | 128565 8205 128171 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 13.1 (2020) | |
Keywords
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How to type 😵💫
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “face with spiral eyes”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “confused”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f635and 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 spiral eyes emoji mean?+
😵💫 is the face with spiral eyes emoji, tagged confused, dizzy and eyes. 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 spiral eyes is U+1F635 U+200D U+1F4AB. In HTML that is 😵‍💫, in CSS \1F635\200D\1F4AB, and in JavaScript \u{1F635}\u{200D}\u{1F4AB}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 😵💫 emoji added?+
face with spiral eyes 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.
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