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🤒Face With Thermometer Emoji

The face with thermometer emoji 🤒 carries the codepoint U+1F912 and has been in the standard since Emoji 1.0 (2015). It belongs to Smileys & Emotion → Unwell.

What 🤒 face with thermometer 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 face, ill and sick 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+1F912`
HTML hex	`🤒`
HTML decimal	`🤒`
CSS	`\1F912`
JavaScript	`\u{1F912}`
Python	`\U0001F912`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDD12`
Rust	`\u{1f912}`
Swift	`\u{1F912}`
PHP	`\u{1F912}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A4%92`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A4 92`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DD12`
Base64	`8J+kkg==`
Decimal	`129298`
Introduced	Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Keywords

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How to type 🤒

Windows — press Win + . and search “face with thermometer”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “face”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f912 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 with thermometer emoji mean?+

🤒 is the face with thermometer emoji, tagged face, ill and sick. 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 thermometer is U+1F912. In HTML that is 🤒, in CSS \1F912, and in JavaScript \u{1F912}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🤒 emoji added?+

face with thermometer 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.

Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🤒 face with thermometer.