Wind Face Emoji
A face blowing wind, for gales, cold air and something being blown away.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Wind Face emoji mean?
A face blowing wind, for gales, cold air and something being blown away.
Blustery and slightly odd. It is one of the few weather symbols drawn with a face, which gives it a storybook tone.
How to use 🌬️ naturally
Weather posts, autumn captions and jokes about being blown off course.
Nature emoji describe weather and places while also carrying emotional associations such as calm, hope, luck or change. They are common in captions because they establish a mood without a long explanation.
From standard to slang
The history of 🌬️
- 2014
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Wind Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. Another retrospective label, covering characters recognised as emoji in 2014.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A blue-grey face in profile blowing curled lines of air, added in 2014. It borrows directly from the wind faces drawn in the corners of old maps.
- Today
How its use evolved
Weather posts, autumn captions and jokes about being blown off course.
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.
Fence is down again 🌬️
Cannot hear anything over it 🌬️
Hair had other plans today 🌬️
When to use it
Using 🌬️ clearly
Weather posts, autumn captions and jokes about being blown off course. It lands as wind emoji or windy 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 wind face emoji
What does 🌬️ mean in a text message?
A face blowing wind, for gales, cold air and something being blown away. Blustery and slightly odd. It is one of the few weather symbols drawn with a face, which gives it a storybook tone.
Is 🌬️ always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are wind emoji, windy emoji, 🌬️ meaning, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🌬️ look different on another device?
U+1F32C 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 wind 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 wind face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 🌬️ as emoji in Emoji 0.7, dated 2014. 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+1F32C 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 | \1F32C \FE0F | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F32C}\u{FE0F} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%8C%AC%EF%B8%8F | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F32C U+FE0F
- Category
- Weather & Nature
- Also known as
- wind emojiwindy emoji🌬️ meaning
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