Hot face runs red-orange with a lolling tongue and sweat beads, built for heat you can't escape: a heatwave, a fever, food that fights back. It doubles as a compliment too, the wordless version of calling someone (or something) hot.
What 🥵 means
An orangish-red face with furrowed brows, blank eyes, and a tongue sticking out of the open mouth. The emoji also has a sweat drop at the side of the face, which can differ in number across different platforms.
The 🥵 Hot Face emoji signifies a sense of burning up with fever, sweating because of the scorching heat, or finding someone/something physically attractive, or hot in other words.
How and when to use it
- If you're out vacaying in a blazing hot destination, send this emoji in your texts describing the holiday to your friends.
- You can also use this emoji to express merciless summers in general.
- Although not universally acceptable, you can also use this emoji to talk about someone you find irresistibly hot.
- If you're down with fever and you're burning up, send this emoji if you still have the strength to hold up your phone.
- Use this emoji if you're talking about an extremely spiced out cuisine/dish.
Other Names
- 🥵 Heating Up
- 🥵 Infatuated
- 🥵 Feverish
- 🥵 Ill
- 🥵 Burning Up
🥵 Overheated Face - 🥵 Spicy
- 🥵 Tongue Out
- 🥵 Sweaty, Burning Face
🥵 Chilly
🥵 Spicy Food Face
🥵 in real conversations
What does 🥵 mean from a girl?
Either literally overheated — 'it's 100 degrees 🥵' — or calling someone seriously attractive, as in genuinely hot. Which one depends entirely on whether the sentence around it mentions weather or a person.
What does 🥵 mean in texting?
Physical heat or attraction, and the flushed cheeks work for both. 'This gym session 🥵' is literal; '🥵🥵🥵' under someone's photo with no caption at all is pure thirst.
Does 🥵 mean attracted or overheated?
Both are common, and only context sorts it out — weather talk or a workout means literal heat, a photo reply with nothing else attached means attraction. Same sweaty face either way.
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-unwell
- Codepoints
U+1F975- Emoji version
- Emoji 11.0
- Shortcodes
:hot_face:- Keywords
- dying, face, feverish, heat, hot, panting, red-faced, stroke, sweating, tongue
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.
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🥵 Hot Face or ☑️ Check Box with Check?
Runs with a crowd
🥵 keeps company in fire emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.