Cold face pairs a blue-tinted complexion with chattering teeth and hanging icicles, built for being genuinely, physically freezing. It also covers calling something harsh or callous, the classic "that's cold," or playing unbothered and numb when drama's flying.
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
🥶 in real conversations
What does 🥶 mean from a guy?
Usually literal — freezing, complaining about the weather or bad AC. It doubles as slang for something being ice-cold impressive, like a savage comeback or a brutally clean win: '🥶 that roast was cold.'
What does 🥶 mean in texting?
Cold, literally, most of the time — '🥶 outside today.' The secondary use is calling something savage or impressively harsh, borrowing 'ice cold' the way people use 'brutal' as a compliment on a burn.
Does 🥶 mean freezing or savage?
Mostly freezing — weather and temperature complaints dominate actual use. The savage reading exists but shows up far less often, almost always attached to a comeback or a diss rather than standing alone.
The lowdown
- 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
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🥶 Cold Face or ⌛ Hourglass Done?