For everyday people who aren’t in medicine or working with fumes, this emoji can be used in one of two ways; you can either use it to suggest that you are sick or to suggest that someone else is sick. Let’s say you have caught a cold and are currently holed up in bed with a nice bowl of chicken soup - your friend asks you to come out. You could say: Not today dude - not feeling well at all 😷 Alternatively, you could use the face to respond to someone who is sick - but you may want to use this with caution and only for trivial sicknesses. For example, your friend has caught a cold but you were planning to go out that night. Obviously, you don’t want to get sick - so you could message: Dude stay in and get better! I don’t want to catch it anyway 😷

Approved as part of Unicode 6.0, this face was added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015; it joined popular faces like Beaming Face, Confounded Face and Smirking Face.