😷 "face with medical mask" emoji (copy and paste)
face with medical mask
A yellow face wearing a white surgical mask.
Meaning of the face with medical mask Emoji
A yellow face wearing a white surgical mask, as used by health workers in hospitals as well as the general public during a pandemic. May be worn to avoid sickness or spreading airborne diseases. Displayed with closed eyes on most platforms. Google, and WhatsApp show this emoji with neutral eyes. Apple changed this emoji to show with smiling eyes in iOS 14.2 and above, as did Microsoft in their Windows 11 November 2021 update. In 2020, this emoji became primarily used in reference to Coronavirus / COVID-19. Face with Medical Mask was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Usage Examples
- I'm feeling under the weather, time to wear 😷.
- Health workers are seen wearing 😷 in hospitals.
- During the pandemic, many people wore 😷 in public.
- Stay safe and use 😷 to avoid spreading diseases.
- This emoji 😷 became popular in 2020 due to COVID-19.
Alternative Names
face with mask, mask face
Related Word Associations
health, hospital, pandemic, sickness, coronavirus
Appearance in OpenMoji
Download the OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0) version of the 😷 face with medical mask emoji for cross-platform use:
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Unicode Data
- Code Point(s):
- U+1F637
- Version:
- Emoji E0.6
Developer Codes
| Shortcode (Discord) | :mask: |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :mask: |
| Shortcode (Slack) | :mask: |
| HTML Dec | 😷 |
| HTML Hex | 😷 |
| CSS | \01F637 |
| C, C++ & Python | \U0001f637 |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83D\uDE37 |
| Perl | \x{1F637} |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F637} |
| Punycode | xn--h8h |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%98%B7 |
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