Hot Face Emoji
A red, sweating face with its tongue out, overheating from weather or exertion.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Hot Face emoji mean?
A red, sweating face with its tongue out, overheating from weather or exertion.
Overwhelmed by heat. It is literal about weather and exertion, though it also appears as a reaction to someone attractive, which is worth knowing before sending it.
How to use 🥵 naturally
Heatwaves, workouts and describing a room nobody can work in.
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 🥵
- 2018
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Hot Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. The first release under the current annual numbering.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A red face with a sweating brow and a tongue hanging out, half of a deliberate pair with 🥶. Its second meaning about attraction was not in the original design brief.
- Today
How its use evolved
Heatwaves, workouts and describing a room nobody can work in.
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.
Thirty-four degrees on the platform 🥵
No air conditioning anywhere 🥵
Ran in the middle of the day 🥵
When to use it
Using 🥵 clearly
Heatwaves, workouts and describing a room nobody can work in. It lands as hot face 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 hot face emoji
What does 🥵 mean in a text message?
A red, sweating face with its tongue out, overheating from weather or exertion. Overwhelmed by heat. It is literal about weather and exertion, though it also appears as a reaction to someone attractive, which is worth knowing before sending it.
Is 🥵 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are hot face emoji, 🥵 meaning, overheating emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
What does 🥵 mean from a girl or from a guy?
The same thing either way: A red, sweating face with its tongue out, overheating from weather or exertion. The sender's gender does not change what the character means. What does change it is how well you know each other, what the rest of the message says, and whether either of you is being ironic.
Why does 🥵 look different on another device?
U+1F975 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 hot face 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 hot face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🥵 as emoji in Emoji 11.0, dated 2018. 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.
Hot Face or Cold Face?
A deliberate pair, drawn as mirror images. 🥵 also carries a second reading about attraction that 🥶 has no equivalent for.
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+1F975 | 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 | \1F975 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F975} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%B5 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F975
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- hot face emoji🥵 meaningoverheating emoji
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