Woozy Face Emoji
A dazed, uneven expression covering tipsiness, exhaustion, illness or being overwhelmed.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Woozy Face emoji mean?
A dazed, uneven expression covering tipsiness, exhaustion, illness or being overwhelmed.
Bleary and comic. It covers drink, tiredness and being generally unwell, and the humour depends on the situation being minor.
How to use 🥴 naturally
Long weeks, late nights and anything that has left you not quite functioning.
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, Woozy 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
One eye squeezed shut, one wide, and a wavering mouth. The asymmetry is the point, and it stands for drunkenness, exhaustion or infatuation.
- Today
How its use evolved
Long weeks, late nights and anything that has left you not quite functioning.
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.
Three hours of sleep and a long meeting 🥴
That last one was a mistake 🥴
Week feels about nine days long 🥴
When to use it
Using 🥴 clearly
Long weeks, late nights and anything that has left you not quite functioning. It lands as woozy face meaning or drunk 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 woozy face emoji
What does 🥴 mean in a text message?
A dazed, uneven expression covering tipsiness, exhaustion, illness or being overwhelmed. Bleary and comic. It covers drink, tiredness and being generally unwell, and the humour depends on the situation being minor.
Is 🥴 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are woozy face meaning, drunk emoji, dizzy face emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 🥴 look different on another device?
U+1F974 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 woozy 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 woozy 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.
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+1F974 | 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 | \1F974 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F974} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%B4 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F974
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- woozy face meaningdrunk emojidizzy face emoji
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