🥶Cold Face Emoji
It usually just means someone is feeling cold. It can be literal, or it’s used to express being chilly emotionally.
The 🥶 emoji is a frozen face.
- Unicode
- U+1F976
- Released
- 2018
- Shortcode
- :cold_face:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🥶 Cold Face emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 9.
People also look for it as freezing emoji.
Cold Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the cold face 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.
Cold Face 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 :cold_face:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F976.
How to type the 🥶 Cold Face emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Cold Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the cold face 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
Cold Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around cold face 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.
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
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 🥶 Cold Face emoji came from
It arrived with the 11.0 release of the standard, which dates the cold face to 2018.
Same character every time — U+1F976 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.
Cold Face was approved as U+1F976 and shipped in Emoji 11.0 (2018). 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.