😖Confounded Face Emoji
It usually means someone is feeling confused, frustrated, or overwhelmed. Think of it as a digital shrug of the shoulders – they’re saying, "I don’t get it!
The 😖 emoji shows a face with a furrowed brow, wide eyes, and a slightly open mouth.
- Unicode
- U+1F616
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :confounded:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😖 Confounded Face emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 10 of them.
People also look for it as confounded emoji, cringe emoji, distraught emoji.
Confounded Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F616. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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.
Confounded Face emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :confounded:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F616.
How to type the 😖 Confounded Face emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Confounded 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
Confounded Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around confounded 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
Who sent the confounded face and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 😖 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 😖 Confounded 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+1F616 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 E6F3, KDDI au EAC3, SoftBank E407.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Confounded Face was approved as U+1F616 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.