U+1F4A6 Splashing Sweat Symbol
U+1F4A6 was added in Unicode version 6.0 in 2010. It belongs to the block
This character is a Other Symbol and is commonly used, that is, in no specific script. The character is also known as plewds.
The glyph is not a composition. Its East Asian Width is wide. In bidirectional text it acts as Other Neutral. When changing direction it is not mirrored. U+1F4A6 offers a line break opportunity at its position, except in some numeric contexts.
The CLDR project calls this character “sweat droplets” for use in screen reading software. It assigns these additional labels, e.g. for search in emoji pickers: comic, drip, droplet, droplets, drops, splashing, squirt, sweat, water, wet, work, workout.
This character is designated as an emoji. It will be rendered as colorful emoji on conforming platforms. To reduce it to a monochrome character, you can combine it with
The Wikipedia has the following information about this codepoint:
Perspiration, also known as sweat, is the fluid secreted by sweat glands in the skin of mammals.
Two types of sweat glands can be found in humans: eccrine glands and apocrine glands. The eccrine sweat glands are distributed over much of the body and are responsible for secreting the watery, brackish sweat most often triggered by excessive body temperature. Apocrine sweat glands are restricted to the armpits and a few other areas of the body and produce an odorless, oily, opaque secretion which then gains its characteristic odor from bacterial decomposition.
In humans, sweating is primarily a means of thermoregulation, which is achieved by the water-rich secretion of the eccrine glands. Maximum sweat rates of an adult can be up to 2–4 litres (0.53–1.06 US gal) per hour or 10–14 litres (2.6–3.7 US gal) per day, but is less in children prior to puberty. Evaporation of sweat from the skin surface has a cooling effect due to evaporative cooling. Hence, in hot weather, or when the individual's muscles heat up due to exertion, more sweat is produced. Animals with few sweat glands, such as dogs, accomplish similar temperature regulation results by panting, which evaporates water from the moist lining of the oral cavity and pharynx.
Although sweating is found in a wide variety of mammals, relatively few (apart from humans, horses, some primates and some bovidae) produce sweat in order to cool down. In horses, such cooling sweat is created by apocrine glands and contains a wetting agent, the protein latherin which transfers from the skin to the surface of their coats.
Representations
System | Representation |
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Nº | 128166 |
UTF-8 | F0 9F 92 A6 |
UTF-16 | D8 3D DC A6 |
UTF-32 | 00 01 F4 A6 |
URL-Quoted | %F0%9F%92%A6 |
HTML hex reference | 💦 |
Wrong windows-1252 Mojibake | 💦 |
alias | plewds |
Encoding: GB18030 (hex bytes) | 94 39 DA 30 |
Elsewhere
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