Face with crossed-out eyes

X'd-out eyes like a cartoon knockout: stunned, dizzy or figuratively dead.

Used for shock, exhaustion and being overwhelmed, or after a joke so bad it knocks the sender out. It can mean “I can't believe this” or “I'm finished” after a long day.

Facts

Face with crossed-out eyes 😵 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face unwell. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). One other emoji uses it as a building block. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :dizzy_face: or :face_with_crossed_out_eyes:. People also look for it with words like “crossed-out”, “dead”, “dizzy”, or “eyes”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
2. 2020New emoji built from it (Emoji 13.1)😵‍💫

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