Hot Face Emoji Meaning 🥵: Overheated or Flirty?

The hot face emoji 🥵 means "I'm overheated", and it is also slang for "you're hot". Which one is meant depends on what it is attached to.

What does the hot face emoji mean?

• Physically hot. Sweety High says that at its simplest it means someone is overheated, the go-to reaction to a heatwave, a tough workout or very spicy food. Dash Social describes someone sweating or reacting to something hot.
• Attraction. wikiHow says it can mean someone finds another person very attractive. Emojipedia notes it may represent reacting to someone's physical attractiveness (hot, thirsty), including in a NSFW manner. Cosmopolitan lists it among its flirty emoji as an easy way to say "you're hot".
• Stressed or flustered. wikiHow also says it can mean someone is stressed out.

The top-rated answers on our hot face page cover both: overheating and finding someone attractive.

What does it mean when a guy sends a hot face emoji?

• After a photo of you or a compliment, it is attraction and usually flirting.
• In a chat about weather, the gym or food, it is just heat.
• With 💦, 🍆 or 🍑, it is explicit.

If it makes you uncomfortable, you don't have to reply, and if you can't tell what is meant, you can ask.

Is it okay to send?

It is fine for weather and exercise. As a flirty emoji, only use it when the other person is clearly interested, and keep it out of work and family chats.

Hot face vs similar emoji

• 🥵 hot face: overheated or attracted.
• 🥶 cold face: freezing.
• 😍 heart eyes: love or strong liking, without the heat.
• 🔥 fire: hot, as in great, impressive or attractive.

Hot face emoji facts

• Name: hot face
• Added: Unicode 11.0 (2018); Apple added it in iOS 12.1
• Looks like: a red face with a tongue out and sweat. The exact design differs between platforms.

Have your own take on 🥵? Add it on the hot face emoji page.