What means
A dust cloud hides the blows in an ongoing scuffle.
By the early 1900s, comic strips used it to hide the blows and imply a drawn-out scuffle. It can also frame an argument as comic chaos or conceal a transformation.
Playful comic chaos; in a serious argument, it may sound dismissive.
Don't confuse it with
1Combination ideas
1A quick transformation into a superhero.
Worth knowing
- is a single code point, so it survives copying through almost anything — old databases, SMS gateways, printer drivers.
Questions people ask
1Why do I see a box instead of ?
Your font may lack it. When a font lacks the character, the app may show a square, question-mark box, or blank space.
How to type
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “fight cloud”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “fight cloud”.
HTML
🫯Mixed-tone wrestling
Select two skin tones in a keyboard's mixed-tone wrestling picker; it inserts between the people.
Codes and encoding1 code points
HTML decimal
🫯
HTML hex
🫯
CSS content
content: "\1FAEF";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%AB%AF
1
On screen
1
Code points
2
JS .length
4
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.