The nauseated face is the universal “nope, my stomach said log out” reaction. It pops up when something is gross, cringe, or aggressively unappetizing—think mystery leftovers, cursed recipes, or that one TikTok that gave you the ick in 0.5 seconds. People also use it for motion sickness, hangovers, food poisoning flashbacks, and the dating trend of getting “the ick” over tiny red-flag behaviors. It doubles as sarcastic drama too: when a caption is so cheesy it’s cute-and-sickening, you’ll see this green grimace deployed with love and a little shade.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a round green face with a darker gradient, furrowed brows, squeezed-shut eyes, puffed chipmunk cheeks, and a tight flat mouth like it’s holding everything back—distinct from the actual puke emoji. The look is straight-on, very “about to hurl but still clinging to dignity.” You’ll spot it in replies to stinky-trend stories, questionable buffet photos, and overpriced-rent screenshots that make your wallet queasy. It pairs well with gagging jokes, “that ain’t it, chief,” and the classic “instant ick” comment, and it often shows up right before the face-vomiting emoji when the situation fully devolves.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 158 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 10 - 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) | 1f922 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F922 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 129314 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA4 0xA2 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A4 A2 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 244 242 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83E 0xDD22 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83edd22 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55358 56610 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F922 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F922 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 129314 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F922" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\xa4\xa2" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83E\uDD22" |