The face with medical mask emoji shows a face with closed eyes and a surgical mask covering the nose and mouth. It signals being physically ill or contagious, taking precautions against sickness, or reacting to something disgusting or gross, and became a fixture of pandemic-era health messaging.
What 😷 means
A yellow-faced emoji with closed, drooping eyes and a mask covering the lower half of the face. This emoji signifies feeling sick physically or as a reaction to something sickening, gross, disturbing, or awful.
Besides being the current scenario (2020 - COVID 19), the 😷 Face With Medical Mask suggests 'covering up' or 'masking up' for health safety in general. This emoji plays along the lines of "Omg, so sick!" or "That's terrible!".
How and when to use it
- If you just encountered something really gross, use this as a way of saying you want to stay safe from such grossness.
- If you're feeling sick and can't make it to a party, send this emoji along with an apology to your buddies or whoever invited you.
- While sending something disturbing, you can use this emoji to give the receiver a gist of the subject (that its sick).
Other Names
- 😷 Sick Face
- 😷 Masked Face
- 😷 Gross
- 😷 Disgusting
- 😷 Awful
- 😷 Ew
- 😷 Yuck
- 😷 Coronavirus
- 😷 COVID-19
- 😷 Surgical Mask
- 😷 Mask Face
😷 Face Mask
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-unwell
- Codepoints
U+1F637- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:mask:- Keywords
- cold, dentist, dermatologist, doctor, dr, face, germs, mask, medical, medicine, sick
How it looks across platforms
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Which joined the keyboard first — 😷 Face with Medical Mask or 👨👧👧 Family: Man, Girl, Girl?