Meaning
The foggy emoji displays a landscape shrouded in dense fog or mist, typically showing a silhouetted scenery—hills, trees, or buildings—fading into hazy white or gray clouds. The visual emphasis is on low visibility and atmospheric moisture, creating a moody, mysterious, or serene impression depending on context. It's often rendered with cool, soft colors that evoke a chilly morning or damp evening.
People use this emoji to describe current or expected foggy weather conditions, especially when visibility is notably reduced. It appears in weather-related posts, travel warnings about poor visibility, or simply documenting a particularly misty morning. Beyond weather reporting, it evokes mood and atmosphere—fogginess can feel mysterious, romantic, or gloomy depending on how it's used.
You'll see it in aesthetic posts celebrating moody weather, as a metaphor for uncertainty or unclear situations, or in creative writing about atmospheric conditions. It's particularly popular in regions prone to fog, like coastal areas or mountains, where it's a regular part of the landscape experience.
Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 0.6 in 2010, this emoji has been a staple for communicating weather conditions and atmospheric mood since the earliest days of emoji standardization.
Common Uses
- • Describing foggy weather conditions
- • Sharing moody or atmospheric travel photos
- • Expressing unclear or uncertain situations
- • Setting a mysterious or peaceful mood
Popular Combos
Did You Know?
San Francisco's famous fog has a nickname—'Karl the Fog'—and has become such an iconic part of the city's identity that residents often use the foggy emoji to express hometown pride.
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Technical Reference
Platform Shortcodes
:foggy: :foggy: :foggy: Developer Codes
| HTML (decimal) | 🌁 |
| HTML (hex) | 🌁 |
| CSS | \1F301 |
| JavaScript | \uD83C\uDF01 |
| Python | \U0001F301 |
| Java | \uD83C\uDF01 |
| Perl | \x{1F301} |
| PHP / Ruby | \x{1F301} |
| Punycode | xn--2qkh |
| URL Encoded | %F0%9F%8C%81 |
| UTF-8 Bytes | 0xF0 0x9F 0x8C 0x81 |
🌁 in 28 languages
Names sourced from Unicode CLDR and emojibase.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| Bengali | কুয়াশাচ্ছন্ন |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 有雾 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 霧 |
| Danish | tåget |
| Dutch | mistig |
| English | foggy |
| English (UK) | foggy |
| Estonian | udune |
| Finnish | sumuinen |
| French | brume |
| German | neblig |
| Hindi | कुहासा, कोहरा |
| Hungarian | ködös |
| Italian | nebbioso |
| Japanese | 霧の都会 |
| Korean | 자욱한 안개 |
| Lithuanian | rūkas |
| Malay | berkabus |
| Norwegian | tåkete |
| Polish | zamglenie |
| Portuguese | enevoado |
| Russian | туман |
| Spanish | bruma |
| Spanish (Mexico) | bruma |
| Swedish | dimmigt |
| Thai | หมอกลง |
| Ukrainian | туманно |
| Vietnamese | có sương |