🤢 Nauseated Face, Disgust, Green Face, Vomit

🤢 Meaning

The emoji depicts a green (or yellow) face with closed eyes, furrowed brows, and an open mouth, from which a greenish "ball" or wave often emerges, symbolizing gastric juice being torn out or nausea approaching.

The primary meaning is disgust, nausea, a foul taste or smell . This is one of the strongest emojis in the spectrum of negative reactions.

🤢 Physical nausea: Motion sickness, poisoning, overeating, seasickness.

• "I got sick on the bus 🤢."

🤢 Extreme disgust (disgusting): A reaction to something that is vile, dirty, or horrible to look at or tastes.

• "Found food in the fridge that was a month old 🤢."

🤢 Moral Repulsion: A reaction to a disgusting act, terrible news, or something immoral.

• "Did he do this on purpose? 🤢 How can someone do something like that?"

🤢 Self-irony: Sometimes used to indicate a feeling of guilt for one's actions.

• "I feel sick at myself for doing this." "I'm going to throw up."

Associations

• Motion sickness in a car, plane, or ship.
• Food poisoning.
• Disgusting smell (rotten egg, spoiled food).
• Feeling of "too much" (alcohol, food).
• A symbol of disgust and squeamishness.

Usage

• After eating/drinking: Example: "I ate too much shawarma. Now 🤢."
• For motion sickness: Example: "I can't stand ships at all. I sat with a 🤢 face the entire voyage."
• As a reaction to content: Example: "Ugh, why did you send me this video? 🤢 Take it down."
• To express strong dislike for a person or situation: Example: "He's back with those jokes again. He makes me sick 🤢."

How it appeared

Emoji were added to Unicode 9.0 in 2016. They replaced earlier text-based notations such as :puke:forums.

Interestingly, the designs vary greatly:

• Apple: The face is pale green, the tongue is sticking out, and a dark green stream is coming out of the mouth. It looks incredibly realistic and disgusting.
• Samsung (older versions): The face was bright yellow and the "vomit" was depicted as a spiral.
• Google: Emojis originally looked more comical than they do now, but over time the design has become more generic and unpleasant.

Interesting facts

1. Green: The choice of green for the face is no accident. In many cultures, green is associated with illness (to be green around the gills is an English idiom meaning "to look sick").
2. Popularity in tourism: This emoji has become an unofficial symbol for "seasickness" and is often used in reviews of ferry trips or extreme rides.
3. Difference with 🤮: In 2018, a separate emoji, 🤮 (Face Vomiting) , was added . The difference is subtle but important:

• 🤢 (Nausea): A feeling before or instead of vomiting. Disgust, a sinking feeling of nausea, "I feel sick."
• 🤮 (Vomition): A process in its active phase. Often used more grotesquely and less politely than 🤢.

Combination with other emojis

🤢 + 🚗 = "Car sick"

🤢 + 🍣 = "Food poisoning" (or sushi aversion)

🤢 + 🐛 = "Disgusting bug/worm"

🤢 + 💊 = "Anti-nausea pills"

🤢 + 🍺 = "Hangover with nausea"

🤢 + 👃 = "Unbearable smell"

🤢 + 🗑️ = "Throw it away because it's disgusting"

🤢 for SEO website promotion

This emoji is actively used on websites and in communities associated with negative physical sensations or strong emotions:

Travel forums and booking services:

• Reviews of cruises, ferries, and active excursions.
• Usage: in warnings like "Caution, the pass gets really nauseous 🤢" and in reviews of serpentine roads.

Medical and pharmaceutical websites:

• Sections on food poisoning, rotavirus, toxicosis of pregnancy, motion sickness remedies (Dramamine, Avia-More, etc.).
• Use: in symptom descriptions ("Nausea 🤢"), in product categories "Anti-motion sickness".

Culinary websites and food blogs (with the opposite sign):

• Sections about "failed" recipes, hot and sour dishes (like tom yum soup), or, conversely, how to avoid food ending up in a "🤢" state.
• Use: In "Never combine these foods" warnings or in very spicy food eating challenges.

Websites and public pages on crime/black humor:

• Discussion of violent crimes, corruption, or immoral acts of celebrities.
• Use: in comments and headlines to express moral disgust.

Environmental and sanitary services:

• Websites for garbage removal, pest control, and cleaning.
• Usage: in creatives ("Is your sanitation unsatisfactory? We 🤢. Call us!"), in before/after photos (where "before" is accompanied by 🤢).

Educational resources on biology/medicine:

• Sections devoted to the structure of the stomach, reflexes or dangerous microorganisms.
• Use: as a visual marker in articles about disease symptoms.