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😮‍💨

face exhaling

Face Exhaling

😮‍💨 is the sigh emoji: a face blowing out one big phew. It covers relief, exhaustion or a fed-up exhale, and most senders use it about their own day, not about you. The surprise: some threads borrow the puff as a wink at smoke or vape.

EmojiSince 2021

Search it as: sigh · phew · whew · exhale · relief · exhausted · tired · done
Type it as: :face_exhaling:
Around since: 2021 · Emoji 13.1
Shows up on: Every phone · iPhone, Android, Windows, Mac, Linux

What 😮‍💨 means

A sigh: relief, tiredness or a quietly irritated exhale. The drawing never picks the mood; the words around it do. "Finally submitted it 😮‍💨" is relief, "third double shift this week 😮‍💨" is exhaustion.

The puff had a precursor: Samsung's artwork for 😧 (anguished face), released April 27, 2013, already showed a breath cloud. A November 15, 2019 proposal to the Unicode Consortium, the body that standardizes emoji, pointed to it and asked for a dedicated exhale, listing both calming and fed-up uses.

What does it mean when someone sends you 😮‍💨?

Usually it's about their day, not about you. Post-shift slump, sore legs after a game, a call that finally ended: read it as them letting air out.

Alone as the only reply to your message, it lands colder: a tight-lipped exhale at what you said, closer to impatience than fury. Check what it answers before taking it personally.

Informal and mostly self-directed; reads as personal venting, not an attack.

Sent alone as a reply, it can sound impatient with you; check what it answers.

What it means when someone sends it to you

3 readings

After venting about a long day

Relief that the ordeal is over, not anger at anyone.

Right after a workout, run or game

Physical exhaustion, catching their breath.

Alone, as the only reply to you

Muted impatience with what you said; check the thread.

Don't confuse it with

😤

Face With Steam From Nose

Steam blasting from the nose reads as anger, triumph or effort; 😮‍💨 is a letting-go sigh. Don't swap them.

Combination ideas

Try it for tension ending in calm: the second face makes the relief clear.

Try it for exhaustion: a sigh followed by a weary face.

Worth knowing

The characters behind 😮‍💨 existed in Unicode 9 years before anyone was allowed to draw them in colour: Unicode 6.1 in 2012, emoji presentation in 2021.
😮‍💨 is not one character. It is 3 of them glued together, which is why deleting it sometimes takes two presses of backspace and why it breaks character counters.

Questions people ask

Why does 😮‍💨 show up as 😮 and 💨?

Your app or font lacks the joined design. The emoji is 😮 and 💨 linked by an invisible joiner; without support you see both parts side by side. The meaning is the same.

Is 😮‍💨 the vaping or weed emoji?

Not officially. It was designed as a sigh, but some people use the puff for exhaled smoke, as of 2026. Let the thread decide.

How to type 😮‍💨

Windows

Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “face exhaling”.

macOS

Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.

iOS / Android

Emoji keyboard → search “face exhaling”.

Chat apps

:face_exhaling:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.

HTML

😮‍💨

Codes and encoding3 code points

HTML decimal

😮‍💨

HTML hex

😮‍💨

CSS content

content: "\1F62E\200D\1F4A8";

Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.

URL encoded

%F0%9F%98%AE%E2%80%8D%F0%9F%92%A8

On screen

Code points

JS .length

UTF-8 bytes

A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.

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