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Face with medical mask emoji 😷

Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F637

What 😷 means

Face with medical mask 😷 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: cold, dentist, dermatologist, doctor, dr, face, germs, mask, medical, medicine.

Those words also drive emoji search: try cold or dentist on your phone to find 😷.

On the emoji keyboard, 😷 sits with the sick faces (12 emoji) inside smileys & emotion, which has 172 emoji, for example 🤒 🤕 🤢 🤮.

Will 😷 show on my friend's phone?

😷 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.

How to type 😷

To find 😷 quickly, type face with medical mask into the emoji search.

Codes for developers

A character counter sees 😷 as one code point, U+1F637: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.

Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.

Code pointsU+1F637
HTML (hex)😷
HTML (decimal)😷
CSScontent: "\1F637";
JavaScript\u{1F637}
URL%F0%9F%98%B7
UTF-8 bytesF0 9F 98 B7

Names in other languages

The CLDR name of 😷 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.

Questions people ask

What does the face with medical mask emoji mean?

Unicode calls 😷 "face with medical mask" and links it with cold, dentist, dermatologist, doctor. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the sick faces subgroup of smileys & emotion.

When was the face with medical mask emoji added?

It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.

How do I type the face with medical mask emoji?

To find 😷 quickly, type face with medical mask into the emoji search.

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