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😷 Face with medical mask
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😷 Emoji meaning
Health protection, infection prevention, hospital, illness, doctor.
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😷 Meaning
The mask is for protection. Either to protect yourself or others from infection. Someone is in the hospital, has to go to the doctor or has caught a disease. Wearing the masks is widely spread in Asia.
Examples
- Get some rest! 😷
- Are you feeling any better? 😷
- I'd better stay home today. 😷
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Commonly confused with
Same Emotion
Face with mask vs thermometer; both signal illness or visiting a doctor.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Face with medical mask” was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added to Emoji 0.6 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ dentist + dermatologist + dr + germs + medical + medicine
Keywords removed
- face with medical mask
In the release of Emoji 11.0 and Unicode 11.0 in 2018 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords removed
- medicine
In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ face with medical mask
In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
Keywords changed
Keywords added
+ cold + doctor + face + mask + medicine + sick
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Peter Choosing to stay quiet or not talking.