Meaning
Anxiety made visible—this face combines a tense, open mouth with a bead of sweat on the forehead, sometimes rendered with a blue tint suggesting cold sweats. The eyes are wide and worried, the brow slightly furrowed. It's the physical manifestation of nervousness, that moment when your palms start to sweat before a presentation or test.
Use it when you're legitimately stressed or nervous about something upcoming. Before a job interview, waiting for test results, or anticipating a difficult conversation—this says "I'm genuinely anxious about this." It's more physically grounded than purely emotional fear, emphasizing the bodily sensations that come with worry.
On social media, it's common in threads where people are discussing their nerves about an event or admitting they're stressed. The sweat detail makes it more specific than generic worry faces—it suggests active, physical anxiety rather than abstract concern. Friends use it when hyping each other up before something nerve-wracking, or when commiserating about shared anxieties.
The sweat droplet is the key detail that sets this apart from other nervous expressions. First approved in Unicode 0.6 back in 2010, this emoji has remained popular because it captures something genuinely relatable: that sweaty-palmed, tight-chested feeling that anxiety produces.
Common Uses
- • Admitting you're nervous about something
- • Expressing stress before a big event
- • Reacting to a tense situation
- • Describing physical anxiety symptoms
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
Mental health advocates on TikTok and Instagram have reclaimed this emoji as a symbol for normalizing anxiety discussions, often pairing it with #MentalHealthMatters posts to show it's okay to admit you're struggling.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:cold_sweat: :cold_sweat: :cold_sweat: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 😰 |
| HTML (hex) | 😰 |
| CSS | \1F630 |
| JavaScript | \uD83D\uDE30 |
| Python | \U0001F630 |
| Java | \uD83D\uDE30 |
| Perl | \x{1F630} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F630} |
| Punycode | xn--2r74 |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%98%B0 |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0xB0 |
😰 in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | খোলা মুখ এবং ঠাণ্ডা ঘামের সাথে মুখমণ্ডল |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 冷汗 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 冒汗 |
| Danish | ansigt med åben mund og koldsved |
| Dutch | angstig gezicht met zweetdruppel |
| English | anxious face with sweat |
| English (UK) | anxious face with sweat |
| Estonian | külma higiga kaetud ja avatud suuga nägu |
| Finnish | avoin suu ja kylmänhiki |
| French | visage anxieux avec goutte de sueur |
| German | besorgtes Gesicht mit Schweißtropfen |
| Hindi | ठंडे पसीने वाला नीला चेहरा |
| Hungarian | aggódó arc nyitott szájjal és verejtékkel |
| Italian | faccina sudata in ansia |
| Japanese | 冷や汗青ざめ |
| Korean | 땀 흘리며 불안해하는 얼굴 |
| Lithuanian | išsižiojęs veidas, išpiltas šalto prakaito |
| Malay | muka gementar dan berpeluh sejuk |
| Norwegian | engstelig og svetter |
| Polish | zaniepokojona twarz oblana potem |
| Portuguese | rosto ansioso com gota de suor |
| Russian | сильно беспокоится |
| Spanish | cara con ansiedad y sudor |
| Spanish (Mexico) | cara con ansiedad y sudor |
| Swedish | oroligt svettigt ansikte |
| Thai | กังวลเหงื่อตก |
| Ukrainian | занепокоєне обличчя з потом |
| Vietnamese | mặt lo lắng và toát mồ hôi |