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🥶 represents a cold, blue face, his mouth clenched and his clenched teeth.
It describes extreme cold—to the point of chattering teeth or being frozen to the bone. Figuratively, it also expresses a chilly atmosphere, a slight sense of unease, or a joke that falls flat.
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What does the 🥶 blue, cold face emoji mean?
The 🥶 represents a face that's turning into a blue due to the cold, with ice cubes embedded in the skin (their position varies depending on the platform) and a clenched jaw that mimics chattering teeth. Its blue color is the classic symbol of the bitter cold and reminds me of ice and snowflakes ❄️.
Literally, it brings to mind frost, the shivers, or even the frostbite and his body numb with cold. Figuratively speaking, its meaning shifts toward the’indifference, an icy atmosphere between two people, or finding something “way too cool.”.
Don't confuse it with the feverish face 🤒, which refers to the illness rather than the cold.
How to Use the 🥶 Emoji: Real-Life Examples
Literally, you use it when it's polar cold or that you're shivering outside. Figuratively, it describes a distant person, a tense atmosphere, or a joke that falls flat. Here are a few examples in conversation:
- “It’s -15° ”this morning 🥶"
- “This guy is glacial ”with me since yesterday 🥶"
- “Your joke was so lame… 🥶” (for a a lame joke, a usage derived from English slang, less common in French)
- “I can’t wait for summer, my heating ”Let me go 🥶"
On social media, you'll also come across him saying that something is “very cool” or impressive. It is also common in the video games to mean that you’re “frozen” in place or that the atmosphere is cold. Finally, it can express a slight fear when faced with a stressful situation, without going so far as to feel pure fear. For that, 😰 is more fitting.
Copy and paste the 🥶 emoji
Select the character below and paste it wherever you want:
🥶
It works everywhere: text messages, Instagram, WhatsApp Where Twitter.
Other names for the 🥶 emoji
Its official name unicode is Cold Face (“cold face” in French). In everyday language, it is also called:
- face emoji frozen
- face emoji frozen or frozen
- face emoji transi
- face emoji petrified
- emoji that chattering teeth
- emoji frostbite
- ice cube emoji
- “blue face that’s freezing”
What does the 🥶 emoji look like on different platforms?
Each publisher (Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp) draws his own face in his own artistic style. The shade of blue, the number of ice cubes, and the expression vary, but the meaning remains the same: an icy chill.
Emojis associated with 🥶
This blue face is often combined with other emojis related to cold and at the’winter :
- ❄️ the snowflake snow
- 🧊 the ice cube
- ☃️ the snowman
- 🥵 a warm face, its thermal opposite
- 😰 a worried, blue face, due to stress
These emojis reinforce the idea of ice, frost, and dropping temperatures.
Emojis span dozens of categories: faces and emotions (including hearts), people, and body, animals and nature, food and drinks, travel and places, activities and events, objects, symbols, and flags. The 🥶 belongs to the first category.
Technical and Unicode Information for the 🥶 Emoji
This blue face was added in Unicode 11.0, in 2018. Here is the code for developers:
- Unicode code point: U+1F976 (sometimes written as u 1F976)
- Official name: Cold Face
- UTF-8 encoding: F0 9F A5 B6
- Category: Smileys and Emotions
The code U+1F976 is recognized on all recent devices, from browsers to messaging apps. You can find its profile on Emojipedia under the name Cold Face.
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