Face with Medical Mask Emoji
What does the Face with Medical Mask emoji mean?
A smiling face wearing a white surgical mask, the kind you see on medical staff in hospitals 🏥 and clinics. Use it to indicate illness, medical care, or protection from haze and smoke.
A smiling face with closed eyes, a bead of sweat on its forehead and a medical mask. Once mainly a symbol of healthcare workers, masks have become an everyday essential since the pandemic — and this emoji surged in popularity after 2019.
People usually send it to refer to a clinic or an illness. The sweat drop can suggest a high fever, common with acute respiratory infections. Once conversation turned to the coronavirus, use of this emoji rose dramatically.
Also Known As
- 😷 Coronavirus
- 😷 COVID-19
- 😷 Mask Face
- 😷 Surgical Mask
Apple Name
- 😷 Face with Medical Mask
Unicode Name
- 😷 Face with Medical Mask
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Face with Medical Mask emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
😷 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F637
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Slack, Discord
- works in Emojipedia
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%98%B7 |
| Punycode | xn--y38h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 98 B7 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \uD83D\uDE37 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f637 |
| CSS | \01F637 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F637} |
| Perl | \x{1F637} |
| HTML hex | 😷 |
| HTML dec | 😷 |
Tags: cold, doctor, face, face with medical mask, mask, dentist, dermatologist, dr, germs, medical, medicine, sick
Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Sick & unwell