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😷 Emoji Meaning
The 😷 Face with Medical Mask emoji generally represents sickness, ill health, or taking precautions against illness. Here are its most popular meanings:
- Physical Illness: Indicates the wearer is sick, feeling unwell, or has cold/flu-like symptoms. It can accompany messages about being sick in bed, having a doctor's appointment, or experiencing specific symptoms.
- Contagious Illness: Signals that someone is contagious and wants to prevent spreading germs to others. This usage became especially prevalent during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Protection from Illness: Shows that the wearer is taking precautions to avoid getting sick, such as wearing a mask in public spaces, particularly during allergy season, flu season, or around others who are ill.
- Air Pollution/Poor Air Quality: Can be used to represent wearing a mask due to poor air quality, such as smog, smoke from wildfires, or dust storms.
- Medical Settings/Healthcare Workers: Sometimes used in the context of hospitals, doctor's offices, or by healthcare professionals, representing their work environment.
- Secrecy/Hidden Identity: In less common contexts, it can represent a desire to conceal one's identity or emotions. This meaning is not as common as the health-related meanings.
- General Feeling of Unwellness: Can be a more metaphorical representation of feeling unwell, not necessarily related to physical illness. This could include feeling emotionally drained or mentally exhausted.
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Face With Medical Mask Emoji Images
Here is how Face With Medical Mask emoji looks like on iPhone, Android, Facebook, Messenger and X:
Face-Unwell Related Emoji
Here is a list of other emojis from the Smileys & Emotion category, Face-Unwell subcategory: