Face with medical mask

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Shortcode: :mask:
Shortcode: :face_with_medical_mask:
Unicode: U+1F637
HTML: 😷
CSS: \1F637
JavaScript: "\u{1F637}"
URL: %F0%9F%98%B7

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What 😷 means

Wearing a medical mask: being sick, or avoiding germs. It can also stand for staying home and keeping distance from others.

Common for colds, flu, doctor or dentist visits, and health tips. It also tells others that the sender is staying home to avoid passing something on, or reminds people to mask up when illness is going around.

Facts

Face with medical mask 😷 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). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :mask: or :face_with_medical_mask:. People also look for it with words like “cold”, “dentist”, “dermatologist”, or “doctor”.