🙁Slightly Frowning Face Emoji
Generally, 🙁 means you’re feeling a little sad, disappointed, or unhappy. It’s a simple way to show someone you’re not thrilled about something in a text.
The 🙁 emoji shows a slightly frowning face.
- Unicode
- U+1F641
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :slightly_frowning_face:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🙁 Slightly Frowning Face emoji mean?
People search for this character under a lot of different names, and the ones we have collected number 5.
Slightly Frowning Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F641 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your slightly frowning 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.
Slightly Frowning Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :slightly_frowning_face:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F641.
How to type the 🙁 Slightly Frowning Face emoji
No picker to hand? The slightly frowning face can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Slightly Frowning Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the slightly frowning face 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
Slightly Frowning Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around slightly frowning 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.
Slightly Frowning Face Emoji Kitchen stickers
Mixed with other emojis by Google's Kitchen — 14 of those stickers exist for the slightly frowning face. 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
One code point, several readings — where the slightly frowning face lands changes how it is taken.
🙁 vs ☹️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
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.
Unicode name: Frowning Face
Code: U+2639 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :white_frowning_face:
Generally, it means someone is feeling sad or upset.
Where the 🙁 Slightly Frowning Face emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 1.0, the slightly frowning face has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 11.
Same character every time — U+1F641 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.
Slightly Frowning Face was approved as U+1F641 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.