😷 Meaning – Face with Medical Mask Emoji

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This icon depicts a face with a white medical mask over its mouth. The eyes are feebly closed. This emoji could mean sickness, especially if contagious. It could be used to express to friends and co-workers that the texter is ill, or that the texter is afraid of getting sick. Sick Emoji could also be used in regards to hospital stays or doctor visits.

The Face with Medical Mask Emoji appeared in 2010, and now is mainly known as the Sick Emoji, but also may be reffered as the Emoji Sick Face. Sometimes it is mentioned as the Dr Emoji.

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Sick Emoji details

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Uncode codepoint: U+1F637
Unicode name: Face with Medical Mask
Category: Smileys & People / Sick Faces
Keywords: cold, doctor, face, sick, medicine, sad
Windows Alt-code: Alt+1F637
Decimal HTML Entity: 😷
Hex HTML Entity: 😷
UTF-16 hex: 0xD83D 0xDE37
Wikipedia: n/a
Version: Unicode 6.0
Year: 2010 (see all emoji of 2010)

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🌐 Sick Emoji translations

Language	CLDR Name	Keywords
Deutsch	Gesicht mit Atemschutzmaske	Arzt, Gesicht, Krankheit
Français	visage avec masque	masque
Русский	в медицинской маске	больной, врач, защита, лицо, маска, медик
Español	cara con mascarilla médica	cara, enfermo, malo, máscara
Italiano	faccina con mascherina	faccina, maschera, mascherina
Português	rosto com máscara médica	doente, gripado, máscara, máscara médica, resfriado, rosto
Polski	twarz w masce medycznej	choroba, lekarz, maska, operacja, pielęgniarka, twarz

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How to type Face with Medical Mask Emoji

There are number of methods to type Sick Emoji. Easiest way is to copy & paste, but other methods, like windows alt-codes and HTML-entities (for web sites) are also popular enough.

You may use this Copy and Paste Emoji List to copy/type emoji one-by-one or this Online Emoji Keyboard to write all your message at one time and copy it when finished.

Copy and paste 😷 emoji

It's very easy to get Face with Medical Mask Emoji both on computer and mobile without any emoji keyboard installed. All you need is to select, copy and paste this symbol: . Select this like a regular text, and copy to the clipboard. After doing that, switch to another website or application and paste emoji using context menu or keyboard. Hint: use Ctrl/Cmd+C keys to copy, and Ctrl/Cmd+V to paste emoji.

Even if emoji symbol or smiley looks like a black square or question mark, it most probably will be converted into appropriate image by web site or application where you paste it.

To avoid misunderstandings, first carefully read 😷 meaning and look at 😷 pictures before sending it to somebody: some emoji don't mean what you think they mean ;-)

😷 emoji Alt-codes for Windows

It's easy to type emoji or any other Unicode character with code value up to U+0ffff by it's alt-code in MS Windows. Here are instructions.

Press and hold Alt key on keyboard.

Hit the Plus (+) button on numeric keypad.

Type the hexadecimal Unicode value digit-by-digit

Now release the Alt key and you'll see your character.

Note 1. This method works only for unicode codepoints U+0ffff and bellow.

Note 2. If this trick does not work, you should check some settings in your Windows Registry. If you don't know what the Registry is, please don't try this! Run regedit.exe and navigate to the HKEY_Current_User/Control Panel/Input Method branch. Add EnableHexNumpad key with type of REG_SZ and set it to "1". You may need to log off and back on to enable this input type.