😧Anguished Face Emoji
Generally, 😧 means you’re feeling distressed, shocked, or concerned about something. It’s used to show you’re experiencing a negative emotion in a text.
The 😧 emoji shows a face with wide eyes and an open mouth, looking distressed.
- Unicode
- U+1F627
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :anguished:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😧 Anguished Face emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 10 of them.
Anguished Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F627 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your anguished face looks like to the person on the other side.
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.
Anguished 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 :anguished:.
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+1F627.
How to type the 😧 Anguished Face emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Anguished 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
Anguished Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around anguished 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
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
Where the 😧 Anguished Face emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the anguished face has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F627 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.
Anguished Face was approved as U+1F627 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.
People wrote it as
D: back when messages were plain text. Most keyboards still convert those automatically.