😦Frowning Face with Open Mouth Emoji
Generally, it means the person is surprised, shocked, or concerned about something. It’s a visual way to show you’re reacting strongly to a message.
The “frowning face open mouth” emoji (😦) shows a face that’s both frowning and looks genuinely surprised or shocked.
- Unicode
- U+1F626
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :frowning:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😦 Frowning Face with Open Mouth 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 caught emoji.
Frowning Face with Open Mouth emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the frowning face with open mouth 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.
Frowning Face with Open Mouth emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :frowning:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F626.
How to type the 😦 Frowning Face with Open Mouth emoji
No picker to hand? The frowning face with open mouth can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Frowning Face with Open Mouth emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the frowning face with open mouth as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Frowning Face with Open Mouth emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around frowning face with open mouth 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.
Frowning Face with Open Mouth Emoji Kitchen stickers
Google's sticker mixer already has this one paired up, and the ready-made combinations number 14. Tap any to open it full size.
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
Chat apps do not change U+1F626, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
😦 vs 🙁 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Frowning Face with Open Mouth
Code: U+1F626 · added 2015
Shortcode: :frowning:
Generally, it means the person is surprised, shocked, or concerned about something.
Unicode name: Slightly Frowning Face
Code: U+1F641 · added 2015
Shortcode: :slightly_frowning_face:
Generally, 🙁 means you’re feeling a little sad, disappointed, or unhappy.
Where the 😦 Frowning Face with Open Mouth emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the frowning face with open mouth has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F626 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.
Frowning Face with Open Mouth was approved as U+1F626 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
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.