Meaning
A face with a downturned mouth, often used to express sadness, disappointment, or general unhappiness.
Category: Smileys & Emotion
☹️frowning face
☹️ frowning face belongs to Smileys & Emotion. Copy it instantly, review its aliases and codepoints, and explore related emojis from the same set.
Aliases
:frowning_face:
Keywords
facefrownfrowningsadfrowning face
What does ☹️ frowning face mean?
The frowning face emoji depicts a classic, simple sad expression with a downturned mouth and open eyes. It is often used to convey feelings of sadness, disappointment, or mild distress. Depending on context, it can represent a general bad mood or sympathy for someone else's misfortune.
Often used for
- Expressing sadness or feeling down
- Reacting to disappointing news
- Showing sympathy for someone's bad day
- Indicating a general bad mood
Tone: It is generally less intense than the loudly crying face or pouting face, often representing a quiet or mild sadness rather than overwhelming grief.
☹️ in real messages
- i failed my driving test today ☹️
- oh no, i'm so sorry to hear that ☹️
- feeling a bit under the weather today ☹️
- they canceled the concert we were going to ☹️
- just not having a great week tbh ☹️
Combos, text art & scenes with ☹️
Related text art & kaomoji
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❤️⃠𓀏☔︎︎☹
☹🥺🥀❤️🩹
☔︎︎☹
🙍🏻♀️☹️
ఌ︎.❦☹
☹ꫂ ၴႅၴ
☹︎
♡💗🖤☹☾
ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ♡ﮩ٨ـﮩﮩ٨ـ☹.
☹𓊔𓆰𓆪
💔☹
How ☹️ frowning face looks
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☹️ frowning face codes for developers
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| Emoji | ☹️ | |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode codepoints | U+2639 U+FE0F | |
| HTML (decimal) | ☹️ | |
| HTML (hex) | ☹️ | |
| CSS | \2639\FE0F | |
| JavaScript | \u{2639}\u{FE0F} | |
| JSON | \u2639\uFE0F | |
| URL encoded | %E2%98%B9%EF%B8%8F | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :frowning_face: | |
| Emoticon | :( |
☹️ in other languages
Spanishcara con el ceño fruncidoFrenchvisage mécontentGermandüsteres GesichtItalianfaccina imbronciataPortugueserosto descontenteRussianгруститJapanese困った顔Korean찡그린 얼굴Chinese不满Lithuanianpaniuręs veidasPolishzachmurzona twarz
Source: Unicode CLDR
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