U+1F637 "😷" Face with Medical Mask Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
😷
U+1F637 "😷" Face with Medical Mask is a pictographic symbol depicting a face with a surgical or medical style mask covering its mouth and nose, typically used to represent sickness, illness, protection from airborne particles or viruses, or the act of being unwell and preventing the spread of germs. It is part of the Emoticons block in the Unicode Standard and was added in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0, gaining widespread usage during global health crises such as the COVID 19 pandemic to signify wearing a mask for public health or medical reasons.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F637 |
| Version Added | 6.0 |
| Name | Face with Medical Mask |
| Block | Emoticons |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 😷 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 😷 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0xB7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDE37 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F637 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\ude37 |