U+1F975 · emoji since 2018
The hot face is overheating, sweat dripping and tongue out. It covers heatwaves, saunas, spicy food, and brutal workouts.
It also moonlights as a reaction to someone looking unreasonably good, which is now arguably its main job. Context decides whether you mean the weather or the person.
In texting, 🥵 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 🥵 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Hot Face emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the hot face emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 🥵 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
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