The cold face emoji shows a blue-tinted face with chattering teeth and icicles hanging from the jaw. It's used for freezing weather or feeling literally cold, and figuratively for something callous or harsh — as in "that's cold" — or for staying numb and unbothered by drama.
What 🥶 means
A blue ombre face with dark, blank eyes and a wide grinning mouth, with icicles sticking out of the mouth and the lower face. This emoji suggests an overall sense of coldness, be it the weather, a situation or a person.
Besides signifying the obvious meaning of freezing weather, the 🥶 Cold Face emoji can also be used as a replacement for the phrase "Oooh. That was cold". This phrase is basically used as a response to something that was insensitive, hurtful, harsh, or a 'punch below the belt'.
How and when to use it
- If someone said something insensitive, use this as a generous way of telling them that they were hurtful.
- You can use this emoji to comically tell someone how cold or unfathomably freezing a place is.
- If you were in a cold, harsh, or unfriendly encounter with someone, and you're narrating that story, use this emoji in that conversation.
- This emoji can also be a safe way to tell someone that what they said or did sent shivers down your spine.
- You can use this emoji as a great way to tell that you're finally numb to drama.
Other Names
- 🥶 Freezing Face
- 🥶 Frozen
- 🥶 Chilled
- 🥶 Freezing
- 🥶 Numb
🥶 Blue Face
🥶 Winter
🥶 Snow Face
At a glance
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-unwell
- Codepoints
U+1F976- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:cold_face:- Keywords
- blue, blue-faced, cold, face, freezing, frostbite, icicles, subzero, teeth
How it looks across platforms
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