A grey cloud trailing motion lines โ the dashing away emoji is the sound of someone leaving fast, borrowed straight from comic-strip speed lines. It's used for rushing off, ghosting a conversation, or generally being quick about something, and occasionally as a wink-wink stand-in for passing gas.
What ๐จ means
A greyish white cloud that's seemingly splashing out with a gush of wind. This emoji would vary in color, design, and finish across different platforms.
The ๐จ Dashing Away emoji signifies a huge cloud of smoke, wind, dust, or even speed and racing. Besides, this emoji can also suggest a fart. It can represent a huge thud, a fall, or even dusting off an old book.
How and when to use it
- If you're talking to your bestie about a massive fart that you just heard or released it yourself, send this emoji.
- It can be used to even show that you're dusting or cleaning your house.
- This emoji can also suggest being in a hurry, or in a rush to head somewhere.
- Use this emoji as a reaction to something very sucky and lame that you came across on social media.
- It can be used to react to something fascinatingly fast that you witnessed.
Other Names
- ๐จ Fart Emoji
- ๐จ Cloud
- ๐จ Smoke
- ๐จ Vape
- ๐จ Poof
- ๐จ Fast
- ๐จ Speed
- ๐จ Vaping
- ๐จ Wind
- ๐จ Gust of Wind
- ๐จ Fleeting
๐จ in real conversations
What does ๐จ mean in texting?
Speed, or someone (or something) leaving fast โ a quick exit, a rushed reply, a plan changing on the spot. "Gotta run ๐จ" reads as literally dashing off, borrowed straight from the speed-cloud cartoons draw behind a running character.
Do people use ๐จ as a fart joke?
Yes, plainly โ the little puff cloud doubles as a stand-in for a fart, and plenty of texters use it exactly that way for comic effect. Context makes the reading obvious fast; nobody confuses "left in a hurry ๐จ" with the other one.
What does ๐จ mean at the end of a message?
A quick sign-off implying the sender is already gone โ sent and immediately busy, out the door, or dodging a question entirely. It's a lighter version of "brb," implying motion rather than just absence, like the sender is halfway out the room by the time the message lands.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion โบ emotion
- Codepoints
U+1F4A8- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:dash::dashing_away:Discord- Keywords
- away, cloud, comic, dash, dashing, fart, fast, go, gone, gotta, running, smoke
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.
โก Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first โ ๐จ Dashing Away or ๐งจ Firecracker?