What 🌡️ means
It means heat, temperature, or fever.
Let the sentence do the sorting. “38° 🌡️” is the sky melting; “burning up 🌡️” is you melting into bed. A thermometer only reports a number, so this one borrows its meaning from whatever it lands beside.
Straightforward for weather or health; playful when stretched to spicy.
With sick talk, read fever first, not flirting.
What it means when someone sends it to you
3 readingsAfter hot weather talk
It is hot out: a heatwave or rising temperature.
After an “I feel awful” text
They have a fever or feel sick.
Beside praise or 🔥
Something is hot, hyped, or attractive.
Don't confuse it with
1Worth knowing
- 🌡️ is not one character. It is 2 of them glued together, which is why deleting it sometimes takes two presses of backspace and why it breaks character counters.
Questions people ask
1Why does 🌡️ look different on other phones?
Every platform draws its own artwork for the same code point. The character you send is identical; Apple, Google, Samsung and WhatsApp each render it in their own style.
How to type 🌡️
Windows
Win+.Open the emoji picker and search “thermometer”.
macOS
Control+Command+Spaceopens the character viewer.
iOS / Android
Emoji keyboard → search “thermometer”.
Chat apps
:thermometer:the common shortcode; support varies by platform.HTML
🌡️Codes and encoding2 code points
HTML decimal
🌡️
HTML hex
🌡️
CSS content
content: "\1F321\FE0F";
Each escape is closed by the next backslash; a trailing space is needed before a literal hex digit.
URL encoded
%F0%9F%8C%A1%EF%B8%8F
1
On screen
2
Code points
3
JS .length
7
UTF-8 bytes
A visible symbol can contain several code points. JS .length counts UTF-16 units; UTF-8 counts bytes.