The face with thermometer is the universal “I’m unwell, send soup” emoji—perfect for calling in sick, side-eyeing flu season, or dramatizing that Monday morning malaise. People drop it when they’ve got an actual fever, post-vaccine chills, or just a case of the I can’t evens. It also shows up sarcastically for hot takes so spicy they raise your temperature, or thirst posts like “your selfie gave me a fever.” Bonus: it doubles as a polite way to say “I’m tapping out early” in group chats without writing a full novel.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a yellow face with tired, half-lidded eyes, faint blushy-red cheeks, and a slight frown clamped around a classic glass thermometer. The thermometer sits diagonally from the lower-left toward the mouth, with a silver body and that iconic red line shooting up like, yep, you’re definitely running hot. The expression screams under the weather—not green-queasy, not mask-wearing—just that achy, bundled-up-with-blankets vibe. Culturally, it pairs well with chicken noodle soup emojis, tea mugs, tissues, and a dramatic “WebMD spiral,” and it’s been a staple for pandemic-era check-ins, fake-sick jokes, and “vibe temperature checks” on social media.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 273 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 | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 9 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🤒 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🤒 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🤒 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🤒 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f912 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F912 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129298 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0x92 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 92 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 222 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD12 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd12 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56594 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F912 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F912 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129298 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F912" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\x92" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD12" |
