🙃Upside-down Face Emoji
Generally, 🙃 means you’re being a little sarcastic or silly. It’s a way to show you don’t fully agree with something or that you find it amusing.
The 🙃 emoji, also known as the Upside Down Face, is used to show a bit of irony or sarcasm.
- Unicode
- U+1F643
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :upside_down_face:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 🙃 Upside-down 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 upside down emoji, upside down smile emoji, upside emoji, smile upside down emoji, upside face emoji, face upside down emoji, upside face down emoji.
Upside-down Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the upside-down face has been drawn in 3 ways.
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.
Upside-down 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 :upside_down_face:.
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+1F643.
How to type the 🙃 Upside-down Face emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Upside-down Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the upside-down 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
Upside-down Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around upside-down 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 in other countries
Reads as playful irony almost everywhere — a light joke or forced smile, not literal happiness.
Signals sarcasm or “I’m fine, kind of” — the wink of someone being a bit sardonic.
Can land as passive-aggressive if the sentence next to it already sounds annoyed.
Before you send it: Fine with friends; in a work thread, drop it if the message itself already reads as a complaint.
What 🙃 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F643, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
Where the 🙃 Upside-down Face emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the upside-down face to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F643 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.
Upside-down Face was approved as U+1F643 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.