Try Sneezing Face emoji
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Meaning & usage
What does the Sneezing Face emoji mean?
A face sneezing into a tissue, for colds, flu and hay fever.
Mildly unwell. It points to a cold or allergies and is lighter than 🤒, so it is a common way to say you are staying home.
How to use 🤧 naturally
Calling in sick, allergy season and saying you feel under the weather.
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 🤧
- 2016
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Sneezing Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. Part of the rapid mid-decade expansion beyond the original mobile set.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A face mid-sneeze with a tissue pressed to its nose. It arrived in 2016 with 🤢, giving a cold its own character apart from the fever of 🤒.
- Today
How its use evolved
Calling in sick, allergy season and saying you feel under the weather.
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.
Staying home today, full cold 🤧
Pollen count is brutal this week 🤧
On my third box of tissues 🤧
When to use it
Using 🤧 clearly
Calling in sick, allergy season and saying you feel under the weather. It lands as sick emoji or sneeze 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 sneezing face emoji
What does 🤧 mean in a text message?
A face sneezing into a tissue, for colds, flu and hay fever. Mildly unwell. It points to a cold or allergies and is lighter than 🤒, so it is a common way to say you are staying home.
Is 🤧 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are sick emoji, sneeze emoji, cold emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🤧 look different on another device?
U+1F927 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 sneezing 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 sneezing face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🤧 as emoji in Emoji 3.0, dated 2016. 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+1F927 | 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 | \1F927 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F927} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A4%A7 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F927
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- sick emojisneeze emojicold emoji
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