Where does 馃尗锔� Fog emoji and 馃寔 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.
Foggy emoji / Emojipedia
Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Samsung, and WhatsApp’s bridges resemble San Francisco’s iconic Golden Gate Bridge. San Francisco is known for its foggy weather鈥攁nd it doesn’t hurt that many of these tech companies are headquartered in the city.听
San Francisco was Incredible! 馃寔
— Raven Carruthers (@ravencarruthers)
The fog emoji was approved by Unicode 7.0听 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.
Fog emoji / Emojipedia
Examples of 馃尗锔� Fog emoji and 馃寔 Foggy emoji
Who uses 馃尗锔� Fog emoji and 馃寔 Foggy emoji?
True to their name, the fog听and foggy听emoji are used for foggy, cloudy, hazy, and even snowy weather.
It's a foggy morning in High Wycombe today! 馃毃馃尗锔�
Do take care on the roads and paths and enjoy the 馃榿
— Bucks New University (@BucksNewUni)
in the snow. 馃尐锔忦煄○煂佲潉锔�
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— Downtown Seattle (@downtownseattle)
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 delayed 馃尗锔� future unclear… To help my poor eyes I added the most probable way after Tuesday night
thanks for this 眉berbrexitdiagram 馃挭
— Bernd 馃嚜馃嚭 H眉ttemann (@huettemann)
If your gonna sub-tweet about anyone馃槖, make it as vague馃寔 as you possibly can馃槕鈥� but hey馃槸, if you want them to notice馃槙鈥� be my guest馃憢馃樁
— 銆轿惵﹠{位鈧� 釓�. (@MikeQuality)
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.
You are all I have馃寔鈾ワ笍
— 鈥� (@x_ililr)
The fog emoji, meanwhile, is sometimes used to represent mist generally …
Walking into existence…鈽勶笍
A warm mist surrounds me.馃尗锔�
A light rewarding persistence…馃尀
A universal showing of rhapsody.馃尃
Image:— Peace Vibes (@PeaceVibesPromo)
… and haze, as generated by smoking pot.
Cloud chasing 馃尗锔�
— Zakkary (@ZakikiSuico)
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