nauseated face Emoji

The nauseated face emoji is used to add emotional tone or reaction to a message — face and emotion emoji like this are consistently among the most-used emoji worldwide because they let a short message carry the nuance of tone of voice or facial expression that plain text lacks.

Category context: The Smileys & Emotion category covers facial expressions and emotional reactions — the most frequently used emoji group in everyday messaging, since a single face can convey tone that plain text often misses.

Cataloged under Face Unwell within the Smileys & Emotion category, nauseated face is the 137th of 171 emoji How To Type Any Symbol lists in this category, and was introduced in Emoji version 3 of the Unicode Emoji Standard. Technically, it is represented by a single Unicode code point rather than a combined sequence, making it one of the simpler emoji to encode and display reliably across platforms. Its Unicode code point sequence is U+1F922.

💡 Good to know: Face emoji can be interpreted differently across cultures and generations — a symbol that reads as "cheerful" to one audience may read as "sarcastic" or "passive-aggressive" to another, so consider your audience before relying on tone alone.