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Sneezing Face Emoji 🤧

A tissue pressed to a scrunched-up nose mid-sneeze is sneezing face, shorthand for a cold, allergies, or general sniffly misery. It also fits a reaction that catches you completely off guard, sudden and impossible to hold back.

What 🤧 means

A yellow face with scrunched-in eyes and a wry smile that is half covered by a handkerchief extended by an imaginary hand. This emoji personifies having a cold, an allergy or maybe just an emotional moment.

The 🤧 Sneezing Face emoji refers to any situation that makes you sneeze and your nose feel funny. It can also be a signal that a situation or a conversation is making you cry or feel heavy in the nose.

How and when to use it

This emoji can be used to tell someone that you're sick.
You can also use this emoji while explaining about a rom-com that you watched and how the entire movie made you weep like a cloud.
If someone's telling you something sad that fictionally happened, use this emoji as a reaction (if it's something non-fictional, call them, duh).

Other Names

🤧 Sick
🤧 Allergies
🤧 Gesundheit
🤧 Sneezing
🤧 Sneeze
🤧 Emotional Face
🤧 Sad and Ill Face
🤧 Cold
🤧 Unwell
🤧 Running Nose

🤧 in real conversations

What does 🤧 mean in texting?

Being sick — a cold, allergies, a sneeze mid-sentence. 'Can't come out, 🤧' is a straightforward excuse. It occasionally shows up as a cutesy tearful reaction too, but illness is the default read.

What does 🤧 mean from a girl?

Almost always literal — announcing she's under the weather, sniffling through allergy season, or explaining a raspy voice on a call. Not flirty, not sarcastic, just 'I'm stuffy.'

Is 🤧 always about being sick?

Mostly, yes — it's one of the more literal face emojis. An occasional soft 'aw, that's sweet' tear-up use exists, but reaching for it to mean sick beats every other reading by a wide margin.

The lowdown

Category: Smileys & Emotion › face-unwell
Codepoints: U+1F927
Emoji version: Emoji 3.0
Shortcodes: :sneezing_face::sneeze: Discord
Keywords: face, fever, flu, gesundheit, sick, sneeze, sneezing

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.