🤕Face with Head-bandage Emoji
Generally, 🤕 means you’re feeling pain or injury, like you’ve hurt yourself. It’s a visual way to communicate that you’re not okay.
The 🤕 emoji shows a face wearing a bandage around its head.
- Unicode
- U+1F915
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :face_with_head_bandage:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🤕 Face with Head-bandage emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 6.
People also look for it as bandage emoji, hurt emoji.
Face with Head-bandage emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the face with head-bandage has been drawn in 3 ways.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Face with Head-bandage 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_with_head_bandage:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F915.
How to type the 🤕 Face with Head-bandage emoji
No picker to hand? The face with head-bandage can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Face with Head-bandage emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the face with head-bandage as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Face with Head-bandage emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around face with head-bandage for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
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.
Face with Head-bandage Emoji Kitchen stickers
Mixed with other emojis by Google's Kitchen — 14 of those stickers exist for the face with head-bandage. Tap any to open it full size.
What 🤕 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
What 🤕 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the face with head-bandage lands changes how it is taken.
🤕 vs 🤯 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Face with Head-bandage
Code: U+1F915 · added 2015
Shortcode: :face_with_head_bandage:
Generally, 🤕 means you’re feeling pain or injury, like you’ve hurt yourself.
Unicode name: Exploding Head
Code: U+1F92F · added 2017
Shortcode: :exploding_head:
Basically, it means something is so shocking or amazing that it feels like your mind is exploding.
Where the 🤕 Face with Head-bandage emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the face with head-bandage has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F915 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 with Head-bandage was approved as U+1F915 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.