Nauseated Face 🤢

A face with a greenish or sickly pallor, often with wide eyes and a grimaced or frowning mouth, sometimes with visible tongue hanging out as if on the verge of vomiting. The overall impression is queasy, uncomfortable, and distinctly unwell. Some platform versions add a small sweat drop or emphasize the mouth's distressed shape.

This emoji communicates genuine nausea—someone's motion sickness, food poisoning, or stomach bug. People use it when they're feeling queasy or recovering from an illness. It's also deployed when someone describes something revolting: "that story is making me feel sick" or reacting to gross content online. The tone can range from literally documenting your discomfort to exaggerating for humorous effect.

The nauseated face sits on a spectrum with other sick-related emojis: it's more specific than a simple illness face but less severe or dramatic than the vomiting face. It captures that in-between moment of "I feel really bad" without the full catastrophe. In meme culture, it's become shorthand for disgust, disapproval, or reactions to secondhand embarrassment.

Approved as part of Unicode Emoji 3 in 2016, the nauseated face provides a middle ground in the sickness emoji family, allowing people to express that unpleasant, queasy feeling that doesn't necessarily require the vomiting face's intensity.