🤢Nauseated Face Emoji

🤢 nauseated face is encoded at U+1F922 and shipped with Emoji 3.0 (2016). Unicode files it under Smileys & Emotion → Unwell, alongside 11 related emojis.

What 🤢 nauseated face 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, gross and nasty and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Unwell.

Copy variants

Different presentations of the same character — useful when a platform renders one form and not the other.

Shortcodes

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

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F922`
HTML hex	`🤢`
HTML decimal	`🤢`
CSS	`\1F922`
JavaScript	`\u{1F922}`
Python	`\U0001F922`
Java / C#	`\uD83E\uDD22`
Rust	`\u{1f922}`
Swift	`\u{1F922}`
PHP	`\u{1F922}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%A4%A2`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F A4 A2`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83E DD22`
Base64	`8J+kog==`
Decimal	`129314`
Introduced	Emoji 3.0 (2016)

Keywords

face
gross
nasty
nauseated
sick
vomit

Appears in these collections

How to type 🤢

Windows — press Win + . and search “nauseated face”.
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 1f922 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 🤢 nauseated face emoji mean?+

🤢 is the nauseated face emoji, tagged face, gross and nasty. 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 🤢?+

nauseated face is U+1F922. In HTML that is 🤢, in CSS \1F922, and in JavaScript \u{1F922}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 🤢 emoji added?+

nauseated face got its emoji presentation in Emoji 3.0 (2016). 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 3.0 (2016)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🤢 nauseated face.