The 🤢 emoji expresses nausea and thedisgust, whether physical or emotional. Depending on the context, its meaning shifts toward the malaise, the aversion or even irony.
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Nauseated Face Emoji: Meaning and Usage
L'emesis face emoji 🤢 represents a green face with pursed lips and puffy cheeks, as if he were about to vomit. His vacant gaze and lowered eyebrows convey a strong sense of malaise.
Literally, you use it to indicate a state of physical nausea or of illness. Several situations fit perfectly:
- a hangover after a night of heavy drinking,
- food poisoning or a food that doesn't go over well,
- a illness as contagious as the flu,
- a desire to gerber due to the seasickness during a boat trip.

Figuratively speaking, it's mainly used to show your disgust in response to repulsive behavior, an attitude, or an object. You can send it to react to an act of racism, an outfit in poor taste, or an inedible dish on your plate.
Side intensity, 🤢 is still milder than the 🤮 emoji. The latter shows a stream of green vomit coming out of the mouth: it expresses a a much stronger sense of disgust, enough to make your guts turn.
Just remember that 🤢 expresses disgust, while 🤮 takes nausea to the extreme.
Nauseated face emoji: other names
This green face emoji belongs to the category emoticons and emotions, in the subcategory Sick Faces. It was introduced in 2016 with Emoji 3.0, and is part of the standard Unicode 9.0. Its official code point is U+1F922.
Be careful not to confuse it with its counterparts in the same category:
- 🤒 (someone with a fever)
- 😷 (sick person wearing a mask)
- 🤧 (has a cold and is holding a tissue)
- 😵 (dizzy with spiraling eyes)
- 🥵 (red, flushed face)
This smiley conveys a strong disgust or a real one aversion. In fact, it goes by many other names depending on the situation:
- gagging smiley
- heartache smiley
- smiley face sick
- smiley face green
- disgusted smiley
- seasick smiley
- disgusted smiley
- addicted smiley
- green smiley
It couldn't be easier to use: you can copy and paste from any emoji keyboard, whether in a comment, an email, or a message.
Examples of the use of the nauseous face smiley
L'emesis face emoji 🤢 is used to express the disgust, a feeling of queasiness, or actual nausea. Here are some specific examples you can copy and paste into your messages:
- You're making me sick! 🤢
- That's really gross—it smells so bad! 🤢
- Yuck, yesterday I saw a dead rat… I almost threw up! 🤢
- That plate of spoiled food makes me feel sick. 🤢
- I feel really sick—not myself at all. 🤢
- I'm seasick—this boat is making me feel sick to my stomach. 🤢
- My boyfriend cheated on me with my best friend… I'm sick to my stomach. 🤢
- That kind of lie really disgusts me. 🤢
Emoji Popularity Index Over the Years
the nauseating face 🤢 is one of the most commonly used emojis to express disgust and disgust. His popularity has soared since his arrival in 2016, along with that of its neighbor, the vomiting face 🤮. The meaning remains the same across platforms; only the graphic style varies slightly.
To find it easily on your keyboard, type the following keywords: disgusted look, nauseating face, nausea Where sick.
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