The nose: medium-light skin tone emoji is your go-to for all things sniff-related—literal scents, gut feelings, and that sixth sense for drama. It often pops up when someone’s doing the “smell test” on a story, a vibe, or a leftover takeout container. Think: sniff sniff… something’s up, or more romantically, catching a whiff of fresh coffee, bread, or a crush’s cologne. It also quietly nods to inclusivity by showing a medium-light skin tone, making the emoji feel more personal and accurate for many users.
Online, it’s prime for sarcasm: “I smell cap” when a claim sounds sketchy, or “smells sus” when the tea is piping. Pair it with 👀 for nosy energy, 🕵️ to play detective, or 🍞 and ☕ to celebrate good smells. It shows up in meme culture too—remember “I smell pennies”?—and in group chats during “nose goes” to dodge chores. It even sneaks into skincare and beauty convos about pores, blackheads, piercings, or rhinoplasty.
On Apple/iOS, this emoji is a clean, front-facing nose with a rounded tip, two clear oval nostrils, and soft shading in a warm, peachy beige; no eyes, no mouth—just minimalist, slightly glossy realism. That simple design makes it perfect for emoji face art like the classic “eyes–nose–mouth–nose–eyes” lineup. Use it earnestly to talk scent, ironically to call something fishy, or playfully to say you’re sniffing out the truth—Toucan Sam would be proud: follow your nose.
The Nose emoji combined with the Light Brown flesh tone character. This gives the emoji the light brown skin color appearance. Yaay!
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 3501 of 2393 |
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| 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 |
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| Previous Names: | Light 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, 1f3fc |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F443, U+1F3FC |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128067, 127996 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x91 0x83, 0xF0 0x9F 0x8F 0xBC |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 91 83, F0 9F 8F BC |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 221 203, 360 237 217 274 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDC43, 0xD83C 0xDFFC |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83ddc43, d83cdffc |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56387, 55356 57340 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F443 0x0001F3FC |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F443, 01F3FC |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128067, 127996 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F443\U0001F3FC" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x91\x83\xf0\x9f\x8f\xbc" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDC43\uD83C\uDFFC" |
