Face Vomiting Emoji
A face actually being sick — stronger than nausea, used for real disgust.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Face Vomiting emoji mean?
A face actually being sick — stronger than nausea, used for real disgust.
Strong and unambiguous disgust. It escalates well past the nauseated face, which makes it too much for mild distaste.
How to use 🤮 naturally
Illness, and reactions to something genuinely revolting.
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 🤮
- 2017
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Face Vomiting was first defined as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. One of the steady annual widenings of the vocabulary.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A green face with the contents leaving the mouth in a stream. It is the only emoji in the set depicting the act rather than the feeling.
- Today
How its use evolved
Illness, and reactions to something genuinely revolting.
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.
Milk was three weeks out of date 🤮
Rough night, do not ask 🤮
The smell in that corridor 🤮
When to use it
Using 🤮 clearly
Illness, and reactions to something genuinely revolting. It lands as face vomiting emoji or 🤮 meaning 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 vomiting emoji
What does 🤮 mean in a text message?
A face actually being sick — stronger than nausea, used for real disgust. Strong and unambiguous disgust. It escalates well past the nauseated face, which makes it too much for mild distaste.
Is 🤮 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are face vomiting emoji, 🤮 meaning, throw up emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤮 look different on another device?
U+1F92E 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 vomiting 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 vomiting emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🤮 as emoji in Emoji 5.0, dated 2017. 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.
Easily confused
🤮 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Face Vomiting or Nauseated Face?
🤢 is feeling sick. 🤮 is being sick, which is a substantial escalation and far too much for mild distaste.
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+1F92E | 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 | \1F92E | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F92E} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%AE | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F92E
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- face vomiting emoji🤮 meaningthrow up emoji
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