Anxious Face with Sweat Emoji
A worried face with a blue forehead and a bead of cold sweat, for anxiety and stress.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Anxious Face with Sweat emoji mean?
A worried face with a blue forehead and a bead of cold sweat, for anxiety and stress.
Stressed and under pressure. The cold sweat makes it more urgent than 😟, so it fits deadlines, exams and waiting for news.
How to use 😰 naturally
Deadlines, exams, interviews and waiting for results.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 😰
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Anxious Face with Sweat was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A worried face with blue shading across the forehead and a drop of cold sweat. The blue comes from manga, where it marks a character going pale with dread.
- Today
How its use evolved
Deadlines, exams, interviews and waiting for results.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 😰 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
Presentation in ten minutes 😰
Exam results come out tomorrow 😰
Just realised the deadline is today, not Friday 😰
When to use it
Using 😰 clearly
Deadlines, exams, interviews and waiting for results. It lands as anxious emoji or nervous emoji when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the anxious face with sweat emoji
What does 😰 mean in a text message?
A worried face with a blue forehead and a bead of cold sweat, for anxiety and stress. Stressed and under pressure. The cold sweat makes it more urgent than 😟, so it fits deadlines, exams and waiting for news.
Is 😰 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are anxious emoji, nervous emoji, stressed emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😰 look different on another device?
U+1F630 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the anxious face with sweat emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 😰 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the anxious face with sweat emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 😰 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
For developers
😰 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F630 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 😰 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 😰 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F630 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F630} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%B0 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F630
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- anxious emojinervous emojistressed emoji
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