Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
😷Face with Medical Mask Emoji
Basically, it means “I’m feeling sick” or “I’m being careful about germs.” It’s often used to show you’re not feeling 100%.
The 😷 emoji is a face wearing a medical mask.
- Unicode
- U+1F637
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :mask:
- Skin tones
- No
01 — Meaning
What does the 😷 Face with Medical Mask emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 11 of them.
People also look for it as medical emoji.
02 — Platforms
Face with Medical Mask emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F637 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your face with medical mask 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 with Medical Mask 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 :mask:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the face with medical mask, code point U+1F637.
04 — How to type
How to type the 😷 Face with Medical Mask emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F637 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Face with Medical Mask emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Face with Medical Mask emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around face with medical mask 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.
07 — Emoji Kitchen
Face with Medical Mask Emoji Kitchen stickers
Mixed with other emojis by Google's Kitchen — 619 stickers exist for the face with medical mask, and 12 of them are below. Tap any to open it full size.
Mix it yourself →
08 — In conversation
What 😷 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the face with medical mask 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 with medical mask 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 with Medical Mask
Code: U+1F637 · added 2010
Shortcode: :mask:
Basically, it means “I’m feeling sick” or “I’m being careful about germs.”
Unicode name: Medical Symbol
Code: U+2695 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :medical_symbol:
⚕️ is the medical symbol, sent to talk about doctors, hospitals, health appointments, or the medical profession in general.
12 — History
Where the 😷 Face with Medical Mask emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F637 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
😷 existed there as
KDDI au EAC7, SoftBank E40C.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Face with Medical Mask was approved as U+1F637 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 😷 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
13 — FAQ