Fever, sneeze, mask or bandage: the sick emoji for every kind of unwell. Copy them here.
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What the sick emoji means
The sick emoji cover different illnesses. 🤒 (face with thermometer) is a fever or feeling unwell generally. 🤧 (sneezing face) is a cold or allergies. 😷 (face with medical mask) is being careful, contagious or, since 2020, just outside. 🤕 (face with head-bandage) is an injury. 🤢 and 🤮 are nausea and belong in the disgusted emoji guide; 🥴 (woozy face) is dizzy, drunk or feverish.
Unicode name: face with thermometer · U+1F912 · Emoji 1.0 (2015) · group: Smileys & Emotion.
IN A MESSAGEnot coming in today, temperature of 39 🤒
🤒 for a fever or feeling ill, 🤧 for a cold, 🤢 for nausea.
What does 😷 mean?
Wearing a medical mask: being ill and considerate, or protecting yourself. Since 2020 it also simply means being out in public.
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