Face with Medical Mask Emoji 😷
Emoji Meaning
A yellow face with eyes closed wearing a white surgical mask. As the coronavirus COVID-19 started to spread, this emoji went viral (the irony!), and in 2020 became primarily used in relation to this pandemic.
The symbol “Face with Medical Mask” is included in the “Faces” subblock of the “Emoticons (Emoji)” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Sickly Face” subcategory of the “Smileys & Emotion” category.
Synonyms
COVID-19, coronavirus, mask face, surgical mask.
| Unicode Name | Face with Medical Mask |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 1: Supplementary Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Emoticons (Emoji) |
| Unicode Subblock | Faces |
| Unicode Version | 6.0 (2010) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Emoji Subcategory | Sickly Face |
| Emoji Name | Face With Medical Mask |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 1F637 |
| Simple case change | 1F637 |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | F0 9F 98 B7 | 240 159 152 183 | 4036991159 | 11110000 10011111 10011000 10110111 |
| UTF-16BE | D8 3D DE 37 | 216 61 222 55 | 3627933239 | 11011000 00111101 11011110 00110111 |
| UTF-16LE | 3D D8 37 DE | 61 216 55 222 | 1037580254 | 00111101 11011000 00110111 11011110 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 01 F6 37 | 0 1 246 55 | 128567 | 00000000 00000001 11110110 00110111 |
| UTF-32LE | 37 F6 01 00 | 55 246 1 0 | 938868992 | 00110111 11110110 00000001 00000000 |
