😣Persevering Face Emoji
It usually means you're having a difficult time and trying to get through it. People use it to show they’re working hard or facing a challenge.
The 😣 emoji, called the Persevering Face, shows someone who is working really hard but isn’t necessarily happy about it.
- Unicode
- U+1F623
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :persevere:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😣 Persevering Face emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as focus emoji.
Persevering Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the persevering 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.
Persevering 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 :persevere:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the persevering face, code point U+1F623.
How to type the 😣 Persevering Face emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F623 when there is no key at all.
Persevering 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
Persevering Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around persevering 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
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
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 😣 Persevering 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+1F623 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 E72B, KDDI au EAC2, SoftBank E406.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Persevering Face was approved as U+1F623 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.