Anxious face with sweat

Fear plus a cold sweat: nervous, stressed or dreading something.

Common before exams, interviews and hard talks, or when waiting for results. It is more anxious than 😨, as if the panic has a physical edge. In work chat it flags real concern about a deadline.

Facts

Anxious face with sweat 😰 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face concerned. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :cold_sweat: or :anxious_face_with_sweat:. People also look for it with words like “anxious”, “blue”, “cold”, or “eek”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion · Unicode 6.0