Meet the nose: medium-dark skin tone emoji — a single schnozz front and center, representing smell, sniffing, and all things nosy. People drop it when they “smell drama,” are doing the sniff test on a sketchy story, or to admit they’re being a little nosy-parker about someone’s business. It’s meme-approved for “I smell cap” moments, and pairs hilariously with the eyes emoji when you’re low-key investigating the group chat. On the softer side, it can be flirty or cozy: think catching your crush’s cologne, freshly brewed coffee, or bread fresh out the oven. Allergy season? Throw it in with the sneezing face and a box of tissues to broadcast pollen pain.
On Apple/iOS, this emoji shows a realistic-but-cartoony front-facing nose with a rounded tip, clear nostrils, and soft gradient shading; in this variant, the skin tone is a warm medium-dark brown. There’s a subtle highlight on the bridge, no mouth or eyes attached, and no piercings—just the nose, posed straight-on like a fragrance ad close-up. Folks also use it sarcastically (“sure, Jan” sniff), dramatically (“I can sense betrayal in the air”), or awkwardly to signal they’re butting in. Add-ons like the perfume bottle, coffee cup, skunk, or trash can crank up the scent storyline, while a nose plus detective emoji screams “I’m on the case.” Technically it’s the standard nose emoji with a Type-5 skin tone modifier, so it’s great for expressive posts with representation baked in.
The Nose emoji combined with the Darker Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the darker brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3503 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
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| Previous Names: | Deeper Brown Nose |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 👃🏾 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 2 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 👃🏾 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 👃 🏾 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 👃 🏾 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f443, 1f3fe |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F443, U+1F3FE |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128067, 127998 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x83, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBE |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 83, F0 9F 8F BE |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 203, 360 237 217 276 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC43, 0xD83C 0xDFFE |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc43, d83cdffe |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56387, 55356 57342 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F443 0x0001F3FE |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F443, 01F3FE |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128067, 127998 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F443\U0001F3FE" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x83\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbe" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC43\uD83C\uDFFE" |
