What is 🥵?

🥵, officially known as the Hot Face emoji, is a relatively new emoji that gained significant popularity in the late 2010s and early 2020s. It depicts a red face with beads of sweat, wide eyes, an open mouth, and a protruding tongue. Its primary uses include expressing feelings of:

• Heat and Temperature: It can literally represent being hot due to weather or physical exertion. You can think this is like a Heat wave.
• Attraction and Lust: More often, it's used to express sexual attraction or lust towards someone or something. Someone can describe this emotion with a word like Lust.
• Embarrassment and Awkwardness: In some contexts, it can convey a feeling of embarrassment, awkwardness, or nervousness, similar to "sweating it out." Embarrassment can cause similar facial reactions.
• Spice and Intensity: If you eat something spicy, you can use this emoji to reflect your experience related to Spice.

The interpretation of 🥵 can vary depending on the context and the relationship between the sender and recipient. Its ambiguity and playful nature contribute to its widespread use in informal online communication.