Hot emoji
🥵 is heat or attraction, and sometimes both. Copy it here and see how it differs from 🔥.
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What the hot emoji means
🥵 (hot face, Emoji 11.0) is red, sweating and flustered. It means a heatwave, a hot room, a hard workout, and — at least as often — attraction: “🥵” under a photo means the person is hot. It is the face version of the fire emoji, and it belongs with the flirtatious emoji when the context is a person rather than the weather.
Unicode name: hot face · U+1F975 · Emoji 11.0 (2018) · group: Smileys & Emotion.
How people use it
- Weather: 🥵☀️
- Workouts: 🥵💪
- Spicy food: 🥵🌶️
- Attraction: 🥵 as a compliment
- Embarrassed heat: flustered
Compare the options
| Emoji | Name | Use it for | Watch out for |
|---|---|---|---|
| hot faceU+1F975 | Hot: weather, effort, attraction | Flirty under a photo | |
| fireU+1F525 | “Fire”, excellent, hot | See the fire emoji guide | |
| cold faceU+1F976 | Cold | See the cold emoji guide | |
| thermometerU+1F321 U+FE0F | Thermometer; temperature | Literal |
The hot face emoji as a meme
The hot face emoji 🥵 is commonly used as a reaction to feeling flustered, overwhelmed by attraction, or simply overheated. You might see it under photos of celebrities, in comment sections, and as a self-deprecating way to admit being flustered. Unlike the 🔥 fire emoji, which praises something as excellent, 🥵 adds a sense of personal, almost physical reaction — as if the viewer is actually sweating.
It is often paired with the drooling emoji 🤤 to exaggerate attraction. The drooling emoji carries a similar tone of desire, but 🥵 leans more toward being overwhelmed by heat or intensity.
Pairing 🥵 with other emoji
Combining 🥵 with other emoji shifts the nuance. Here are the most common pairings and what they signal:
- 🥵🤤 — intense attraction or arousal; the drooling face emphasises desire. See drooling emoji for more.
- 🥵🥶 — mixed feelings: excited but scared, or literally alternating between hot and cold. See cold face emoji for more.
- 🥵🥵🥵 — repeated hot faces amplify the reaction, meaning “extremely hot” or “very flustered.” The longer the string, the stronger the feeling.
Chat examples
Real messages with 🥵, and a reply that fits.
35 degrees 🥵
stay hydrated
that photo 🥵
😏
no AC at work 🥵
brutal
Questions people ask
What does 🥵 mean from a girl or a guy?
Under a photo, attraction. About the weather or a workout, literal heat. The topic settles it.
Is 🥵 inappropriate?
It is suggestive when aimed at a person. About weather or exercise it is fine anywhere.
What does 🥵 mean?
It signals literal heat, a hard workout, spicy food, or attraction to someone.
About this guide
Written and maintained by the Emoji Directory editorial team, without ads or sponsorship. Meanings describe how the emoji is commonly used in public posts and messages, not an official definition. Names, code points, versions, keywords and translations come from the Unicode Emoji 18.0 and CLDR data; shortcodes from the gemoji project. Last reviewed . Spotted a mistake or a new usage? Tell us, or read how the directory is made.
