Emoji Dictionary

🌫️ Fog emoji and 🌁 Foggy emoji

[fog] or [fog-ee ih-moh-jee]

June 25, 2019

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What does 🌫️ Fog emoji and 🌁 Foggy emoji mean?

There are two emoji are confusing …

They’re both used to represent fog and related phenomena of mist and haze: fog emoji, 🌫️, and foggy emoji, 🌁. And, they’re both commonly used to represent both literal and figurative fog.

Where does 🌫️ Fog emoji and 🌁 Foggy emoji come from?

Foggy emoji is slightly older than the fog emoji.

It was approved under Unicode 6.0 in 2010. Also popularly called fog, foggy city or fog bridge, this emoji depicts a city or bridge shrouded in fog, as shown in the screenshot from Emojipedia below.

Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Samsung, and WhatsApp’s bridges resemble San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco is known for its foggy weather—and it doesn’t hurt that many of these tech companies are headquartered in the city. 

https://twitter.com/ravencarruthers/status/1093027657757777920

The fog emoji was approved by Unicode 7.0  in 2014. Its appearance is fairly uniform across platforms. It looks like, well, fog: a cluster of thick, grayish-white clouds.

Microsoft’s design, though, is more representational, featuring three, gray, wavy lines, as shown in the screenshot from Emojipedia below.

Examples of 🌫️ Fog emoji and 🌁 Foggy emoji

Who uses 🌫️ Fog emoji and 🌁 Foggy emoji?

True to their name, the fog and foggy emoji are used for foggy, cloudy, hazy, and even snowy weather.

https://twitter.com/BucksNewUni/status/1096339015048093696

#Seattle in the snow. 🌨️🎡🌁❄️

📸: jeremygonzo via Instagram pic.twitter.com/qthSNlfuOT

— Downtown Seattle (@downtownseattle) February 9, 2019

They are also both used for metaphorical fogs, like when someone only has a foggy idea or feels like they are in a fog.

So #Brexit delayed 🌫️ future unclear… To help my poor eyes I added the most probable way after #MeaningfulVote Tuesday night

thanks @jonworth for this überbrexitdiagram 💪#Brexit pic.twitter.com/LbtsihbbLW

— Bernd 🇪🇺 http://bluesky/huettemann.eu 🦋 🇺🇦 (@huettemann) January 13, 2019

https://twitter.com/MikeQuality/status/422983923417612288

Thanks to the appearance of the Golden Gate Bridge on many platforms, foggy emoji is often used to represent San Francisco or the Bay Area, or for bridges, both physical and metaphorical.

https://twitter.com/x_ililr/status/1096036690014162946

The fog emoji, meanwhile, is sometimes used to represent mist generally …

Walking into existence…☄️
A warm mist surrounds me.🌫️
A light rewarding persistence…🌞
A universal showing of rhapsody.🌠@protobacillus #peace #love #poetry
Image: https://t.co/HJ35hMuZpm pic.twitter.com/8JmaqsRVjx

— Peace✌️ibes (@PeaceVibesPromo) February 11, 2019

… and haze, as generated by smoking pot.

Cloud chasing 🌫️ pic.twitter.com/h85hNRXWkv

— Zakkary (@ZakikiSuico) February 13, 2019