Frowning Face Emoji
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What does the Frowning Face emoji mean?
1
This familiar yellow face wears a pronounced frown and is generally used to show sadness, worry, or displeasure. It’s also more often than not used to express how much you miss someone, overall conveying stronger emotions than the slightly frowning face emoji.
2
A sad face that shows a deeper level of sorrow than the slightly sad smiley. This version has a more downturned mouth and a gloomy expression — there are no eyebrows.
Use this face to convey your regret or sadness. It’s also suitable when you want to express grief.
Also Known As
- ☹️ Megafrown
Apple Name
- ☹️ Frowning Face
Unicode Name
- ☹️ White Frowning Face
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Frowning Face emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
☹️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+2639 U+FE0F
Shortcodes
- works in Github, Emojipedia
- works in Slack, Discord
- works in Discord
For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%98%B9%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--64h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 98 B9 EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u2639\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u2639\uFE0F |
| CSS | \2639 \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{2639}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{2639}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ☹️ |
| HTML dec | ☹️ |