The cold emoji is Cold face, U+1F976. It leads 60 cold things: the 14 emoji CLDR files under cold, nine that only look cold, five for the cold you catch, seven for warming up, 13 text items and 12 combos.
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Search reads Unicode names and CLDR's search words, so freezing finds Cold face alone and bundle finds Scarf, Coat and All the layers. Pick a skin tone under More options and Foot, Nose, three people and three combos follow it.
Three meanings, one search word
CLDR's cold is three words in one. Nine of the 14 are cold to the touch: Cold face, Ice, five with snow, Scarf and Coat. Four are a cold sweat: the three sweating faces and Droplet. One is the illness: Face with medical mask, filed under cold next to germs and sick.
Tips
Shaking face is from Emoji 15.0, so older fonts show an empty box. brr is three ASCII letters and arrives anywhere.
Wiktionary's brr entry lists Finnish hrr, Greek μπρρ, Russian бр-р and Old Norse hutututu. ぶるぶる, Japanese, needs a hiragana font.
−40° needs no unit: Wikipedia's Fahrenheit article gives −40 °F and −40 °C as the same point. The minus is a true Minus sign, U+2212.
Questions and answers
Which one is the cold emoji?
Cold face, U+1F976, from Emoji 11.0. Its formal Unicode name is Freezing face. CLDR files it under blue-faced, freezing, frostbite, icicles and subzero, and no other emoji gets any of those five words. It sits in the face-unwell subgroup, straight after Hot face.
Is there a shivering emoji?
No emoji is called shivering, and CLDR files nothing under shiver, chilly or frozen. The nearest is Shaking face, filed under earthquake, shaking and vibrate. Wiktionary defines shiver as to tremble or shake, especially when cold or frightened. In text, {{{(>_<)}}} shakes in plain ASCII.
Which emoji means I have a cold?
Face with medical mask, by CLDR's filing: it is the only illness emoji under cold. Sneezing face gets flu, fever and gesundheit instead. Wiktionary gives cold both senses: the sensation, and a common and usually harmless illness.
😰Anxious face with sweatU+1F630. The cold here is a cold sweat. CLDR lists anxious, nervous, scared and sweat, and blue, a word it shares with Cold face. Emoji 0.6.
🌨️Cloud with snowU+1F328 U+FE0F. Four CLDR words: cloud, cold, snow and weather. Emoji 0.7.
🧥CoatU+1F9E5. The only emoji CLDR files under brr. It gets bundle, cold, jacket and up as well. Emoji 5.0.
🥶Cold faceU+1F976. The cold one itself. Its formal Unicode name is Freezing face, and CLDR files it under blue-faced, freezing, frostbite, icicles and subzero, five words no other emoji gets. The list keeps it with the unwell faces, straight after Hot face. Emoji 11.0.
😓Downcast face with sweatU+1F613. Another cold sweat. CLDR lists cold, nervous, scared and sweat, and adds headache. Emoji 0.6.
💧DropletU+1F4A7. Cold by way of sweat: one drop, which CLDR files under cold, sweat, tear and water. Emoji 0.6.
😷Face with medical maskU+1F637. The third meaning: a cold, the illness. CLDR lists cold next to germs, mask, medicine and sick. Emoji 0.6.
😅Grinning face with sweatU+1F605. A cold sweat with a grin on it. CLDR lists cold, nervous, stress and sweat. Emoji 0.6.
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Filed under cold, continued
🧊IceU+1F9CA. A cube, by its CLDR words: cold, cube, ice and iceberg. The list keeps it with the drinks, not the weather. Emoji 12.0.
🧣ScarfU+1F9E3. CLDR files it under bundle, cold, neck and up. Bundle up, in other words. Emoji 5.0.
❄️SnowflakeU+2744 U+FE0F. CLDR lists cold, snow, snowflake and weather. It has a plain text form, one reason this page has an emoji or text switch. Emoji 0.6.
☃️SnowmanU+2603 U+FE0F. CLDR lists cold, man, snow and snowman. Its twin is named Snowman without snow, which makes this the one with. Emoji 0.7.
⛄Snowman without snowU+26C4. The same four CLDR words as Snowman, and no flakes. Emoji 0.6.
Looks cold, filed elsewhere 9
🦶FootU+1F9B6. For cold feet of the literal kind. CLDR lists ankle, feet and foot, and it takes a skin tone. Emoji 11.0.
🧤GlovesU+1F9E4. Two CLDR words, gloves and hand. Scarf and Coat got the word cold, and Gloves did not. Emoji 5.0.
🩵Light blue heartU+1FA75. CLDR lists cyan, light, sky and teal, and nothing about temperature. It is here for the colour. Emoji 15.0.
🫨Shaking faceU+1FAE8. The nearest thing to a shiver. CLDR files nothing under shiver or shivering, and gives this face earthquake, shaking and vibrate. A device with fonts older than Emoji 15.0 shows an empty box. Emoji 15.0.
🧦SocksU+1F9E6. CLDR lists socks and stocking. No cold here either. Emoji 5.0.
🌡️ThermometerU+1F321 U+FE0F. Two CLDR words: thermometer and weather. It reads whatever you say it reads. Emoji 0.7.
🦷ToothU+1F9B7. For chattering. CLDR files ten emoji under teeth, and Tooth and Cold face are two of them. Emoji 11.0.
🌬️Wind faceU+1F32C U+FE0F. CLDR lists blow, cloud, face and wind. No cold word, whatever the wind feels like. Emoji 0.7.
🪟WindowU+1FA9F. For whoever left it open. CLDR lists air, fresh and opening. Emoji 13.0.
A cold, the kind you catch 5
🤒Face with thermometerU+1F912. Four CLDR words: face, ill, sick and thermometer. No other emoji is filed under ill. Emoji 1.0.
👃NoseU+1F443. CLDR lists nose, smell and odor. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 0.6.
🛌Person in bedU+1F6CC. CLDR lists bed, nap, sleep and tired. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 1.0.
🧻Roll of paperU+1F9FB. CLDR files nothing under tissue. This roll, listed under paper, roll, toilet and towels, is the stand-in. Emoji 11.0.
🤧Sneezing faceU+1F927. CLDR lists sneeze, gesundheit, flu, fever and sick. The word cold is not among them: that went to the mask. Emoji 3.0.
Warming back up 7
🔥FireU+1F525. CLDR lists burn, flame and hot. It files nothing under fireplace, so this has to do for one. Emoji 0.6.
☕Hot beverageU+2615. CLDR files nothing under warm, cosy or blanket, so warming up starts at hot. This cup gets hot, steaming, coffee, tea and chai. Emoji 0.6.
🥵Hot faceU+1F975. The opposite number. Formally Overheated face, it arrived with Cold face in Emoji 11.0 and sits one code point before it. Emoji 11.0.
♨️Hot springsU+2668 U+FE0F. Steam off hot water. CLDR lists hot, hotsprings, springs and steaming. Emoji 0.6.
🧖Person in steamy roomU+1F9D6. CLDR files it under sauna, steam and steambath. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 5.0.
🛀Person taking bathU+1F6C0. CLDR lists bath, bathtub and tub. It takes a skin tone. Emoji 0.6.
🍜Steaming bowlU+1F35C. One of two emoji CLDR files under soup. It lists noodle, ramen and pho too. Emoji 0.6.
Brr, temperatures and text faces 13
(((°_°)))A fixed stare with Degree signs for eyes, and round brackets rippling outward
[°_°]Frozen into a block: the square brackets are the ice. Degree signs for eyes. This site’s own
{{{(>_<)}}}Curly brackets for the shaking, eyes screwed shut. ASCII
μπρρGreek, from the same Wiktionary table. Four letters: mu, pi, rho, rho
бр-рRussian, from the same Wiktionary table, hyphen included. The letters are Cyrillic be and er
ぶるぶるJapanese. Wiktionary glosses it as tremblingly, with shivers, and says to compare English brr. By their Unicode names the letters are bu, ru, bu, ru. Hiragana, so it needs a Japanese font
−273.15°CAbsolute zero, which Wikipedia calls the theoretically coldest temperature: 0 K. Minus sign, Degree sign and a capital C
−40°The one temperature that needs no unit: Wikipedia’s Fahrenheit article gives −40 °F and −40 °C as the same point. Typed with a true Minus sign, U+2212, and a Degree sign
brrWiktionary’s definition: used to express being cold, to show shivering. The same entry records a second sense, the ringing sound of a telephone. ASCII
brrrWiktionary lists br and brrr as other spellings of brr, and gives brrr as the French form. ASCII
d(>_<)bThe d and the b are earmuffs. This site’s own. ASCII
hrrFinnish, from the translation table in Wiktionary’s brr entry, which is headed expression to show shivering. ASCII
hutututuOld Norse, according to the same Wiktionary table, which lists atatata beside it. ASCII
Cold combos 12
🧥🧣🧤🧦All the layersCoat, then scarf, then gloves, then socks. CLDR tells Coat and Scarf to bundle up. Gloves and Socks came anyway.
🍨🧠🥶Brain freezeIce cream, then brain, then cold face. Wiktionary: a pain in the head from eating or drinking something cold.
🚏🥶Bus is lateBus stop, then cold face. CLDR lists bus, busstop and stop. The waiting is implied.
🦷🥶🦷ChatteringTooth, then cold face, then tooth. CLDR files teeth under Tooth and under Cold face.
🦶🧊Cold feetFoot, then ice. Wiktionary’s cold feet is a feeling of nervousness or anxiety that makes one reconsider a decision about an upcoming event. This covers the literal kind too. The foot follows the skin tone you pick.
🤲☕Cold hands, warm mugPalms up together, then hot beverage. The only emoji CLDR files under cupped, holding the cup. The hands follow the skin tone you pick.
🤧🛌Off with a coldSneezing face, then person in bed. The other cold. The person in bed follows the skin tone you pick.
🌡️⬇️🥶Temperature droppingThermometer, then down arrow, then cold face. CLDR files Down arrow under down and south, which is where the reading is heading.
🥶☕😌Thawing outCold face, then hot beverage, then relieved face. Three steps, ending on Relieved face, which CLDR files under calm and relief.
🥵🆚🥶Thermostat disputeHot face, then VS button, then cold face. One room, two opinions. CLDR files the button under versus.
🥶🥶🥶Triple freezeCold face 3 times. For when one is an understatement.
🪟🌬️🥶Who opened the windowWindow, then wind face, then cold face. CLDR files Window under air and fresh. The fresh air is the complaint.