😔Pensive Face Emoji
Generally, 😔 means someone is feeling sad, thoughtful, or a little down. It's often used to convey a gentle sense of melancholy.
The 😔 emoji is a face with a single, downward-facing eyebrow raised.
- Unicode
- U+1F614
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :pensive:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #33 most used
What does the 😔 Pensive Face emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 11 of them.
People also look for it as pensive emoji, died emoji.
Pensive Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the pensive face as 9 vendors ship it.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Pensive Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :pensive:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the pensive face, code point U+1F614.
How to type the 😔 Pensive Face emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Pensive Face emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Pensive Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around pensive face for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 😔, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 😔 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
What 😔 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the pensive face lands changes how it is taken.
Emojis similar to the Pensive Face emoji
Same family (face-sleepy) — often confused with pensive face or used alongside it.
Face With Bags Under Eyes
😀Grinning Face
😃Grinning Face with Big Eyes
😄Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes
😁Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes
😆Grinning Squinting Face
😅Grinning Face with Sweat
😂Face with Tears of Joy
Collections 😔 belongs to — every one of them is a different way people go looking for it:
Where the 😔 Pensive Face emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F614 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
😔 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E720, KDDI au EAC0, SoftBank E403.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Pensive Face was approved as U+1F614 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 😔 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.