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😶‍🌫️ Face in clouds

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😶‍🌫️ Emoji meaning

Dreamy, out of touch with reality, hazy, confused.

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😶‍🌫️ Meaning

This is nebulous! The face is surrounded by fog or clouds. Those who have their heads in the clouds are either dreamy or do not want to admit reality. The view of something is blurred. There may also be a state of confusion or bliss.

Examples

Am I still dreaming? 😶‍🌫️
Now I'm so confused! 😶‍🌫️
I'm still half asleep. 😶‍🌫️

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Commonly confused with

ZWJ Sequence

Face in clouds

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Face without mouth

Mouthless face vs face in clouds; both obscure mouth/face, used for confusion or zoning out.

Face in clouds

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Face in clouds vs sleepy face; both dreamy, unfocused expressions.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Face in clouds” was approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.1 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ clouds + face + fog + head

Keywords removed

- face in clouds - face in the fog - head in clouds

In the release of Emoji 13.1 and Unicode 13.0 in 2020 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ absentminded + face in clouds + face in the fog + head in clouds

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Comments

(4) Comments

Anon 11/4/2025
Someone is on cloud nine!
Naaziah 10/21/2025
When I wasn't feeling well, I sent this emoji as “I'm not feeling well“.
Ethan 8/28/2025
Use this when stoned.
Anonymous 4/25/2025
To me it means you know something but you can't say it, so you hide.