Face Exhaling Emoji
A face breathing out, for relief, exhaustion or letting something go.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Face Exhaling emoji mean?
A face breathing out, for relief, exhaustion or letting something go.
Relieved or worn out. The same breath works for finishing something and for giving up on it.
How to use 😮💨 naturally
After a deadline, a hard conversation or a long day.
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 😮💨
- 2020
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Face Exhaling was first defined as emoji in Emoji 13.1, dated 2020. Another sequence-only release, including the heart concepts.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Added in 2020 as the open-mouth face joined to a puff of air. Building it as a sequence is why the breath sits to one side instead of in front of the mouth.
- Today
How its use evolved
After a deadline, a hard conversation or a long day.
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.
Sent it, finally 😮💨
Long week, and it is Tuesday 😮💨
Letting that one go 😮💨
When to use it
Using 😮💨 clearly
After a deadline, a hard conversation or a long day. It lands as face exhaling emoji or sigh 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 face exhaling emoji
What does 😮💨 mean in a text message?
A face breathing out, for relief, exhaustion or letting something go. Relieved or worn out. The same breath works for finishing something and for giving up on it.
Is 😮💨 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are face exhaling emoji, sigh emoji, 😮💨 meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😮💨 look different on another device?
U+1F62E U+200D U+1F4A8 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 face exhaling 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 face exhaling emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 😮💨 as emoji in Emoji 13.1, dated 2020. 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+1F62E U+200D U+1F4A8 | 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 | \1F62E \200D \1F4A8 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F62E}\u{200D}\u{1F4A8} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%AE%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%92%A8 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F62E U+200D U+1F4A8
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- face exhaling emojisigh emoji😮💨 meaning
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