Face in Clouds Emoji
A face disappearing into fog, for confusion, dissociation and brain fog.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Face in Clouds emoji mean?
A face disappearing into fog, for confusion, dissociation and brain fog.
Vague and unfocused. It describes a state rather than an opinion, which makes it unusually gentle.
How to use 😶🌫️ naturally
Describing a foggy head, an unclear situation or being somewhere else entirely.
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 in Clouds 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 mouthless face joined to fog. The fog covers the lower half, so what remains visible is a pair of eyes and no expression at all.
- Today
How its use evolved
Describing a foggy head, an unclear situation or being somewhere else entirely.
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.
Absolutely nothing has gone in today 😶🌫️
Somewhere else entirely 😶🌫️
Asked me a simple question and I blanked 😶🌫️
When to use it
Using 😶🌫️ clearly
Describing a foggy head, an unclear situation or being somewhere else entirely. It lands as face in clouds emoji or brain fog 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 in clouds emoji
What does 😶🌫️ mean in a text message?
A face disappearing into fog, for confusion, dissociation and brain fog. Vague and unfocused. It describes a state rather than an opinion, which makes it unusually gentle.
Is 😶🌫️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are face in clouds emoji, brain fog emoji, 😶🌫️ meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😶🌫️ look different on another device?
U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F 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 in clouds 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 in clouds 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+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F | 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 | \1F636 \200D \1F32B \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F636}\u{200D}\u{1F32B}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%B6%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%8C%AB%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- face in clouds emojibrain fog emoji😶🌫️ meaning
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