Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 13.1
😶🌫️Face In Clouds Emoji
Means feeling absentminded or foggy, like your brain checked out. Sent when someone’s spacing out, forgetful, or mentally somewhere else entirely.
It shows a blank face surrounded by fog, added in 2021 to capture that hazy, disconnected feeling of brain fog.
- Unicode
- U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F
- Released
- 2021
- Shortcode
- :face_
in_ clouds: - Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 😶🌫️ Face In Clouds emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 5 of them.
People also look for it as face clouds emoji, clouds emoji.
02 — Platforms
Face In Clouds emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F636 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your face in clouds looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Face In Clouds emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :face_in_clouds:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the face in clouds, code point U+1F636.
04 — How to type
How to type the 😶🌫️ Face In Clouds emoji
No picker to hand? The face in clouds can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Face In Clouds emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the face in clouds as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
06 — Combinations
Face In Clouds emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around face in clouds for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 😶🌫️, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 😶🌫️ means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the face in clouds and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
09 — Apps
What 😶🌫️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the face in clouds lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
😶🌫️ vs 😀 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Face In Clouds
Code: U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F · added 2021
Shortcode: :face_in_clouds:
Means feeling absentminded or foggy, like your brain checked out.
Unicode name: Grinning Face
Code: U+1F600 · added 2015
Shortcode: :grinning:
Generally, 😀 means you’re happy and feeling good about something.
12 — History
Where the 😶🌫️ Face In Clouds emoji came from
When it was approved, which release it landed in, and how long phones have had it.
Same character every time — U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Face In Clouds was approved as U+1F636 U+200D U+1F32B U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 13.1 (2021). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 😶🌫️ is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ