People & Body · Emoji 4.0
🙍♂️Man Frowning Emoji
Generally, it means someone is feeling sad, frustrated, or disappointed. It's often used in texts to show you’re not happy about something.
The 🙍♂️ emoji is a man with a frown.
- Unicode
- U+1F64D U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2016
- Shortcode
- :man-
frowning: - Skin tones
- Yes
01 — Meaning
What does the 🙍♂️ Man Frowning emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 11 of them.
02 — Platforms
Man Frowning emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the man frowning as 5 vendors ship it.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Skin tones
Man Frowning emoji skin tones
🙍♂️ supports all five Fitzpatrick skin tone modifiers. Each one is a separate character sequence — tap any to copy it.
04 — Copy & codes
Man Frowning emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :man-frowning:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F64D.
05 — How to type
How to type the 🙍♂️ Man Frowning emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
06 — Download
Man Frowning emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the man frowning as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 5 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
07 — Combinations
Man Frowning emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around man frowning for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that for every pair Google has drawn, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 🙍♂️ means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Around the world
What 🙍♂️ means in other countries
Reads as quiet disapproval more than sadness, closer to a raised eyebrow than an actual frown of grief.
comes across as silent disagreement with a decision or plan someone just proposed
used to react to annoying news, a shrug of “great, just great” without real anger
defined as frowning, i.e. disapproval rather than actual sadness or grief
Before you send it: Reserve it for mild disapproval; for real sadness a crying or sad emoji reads more sincere.
10 — Apps
What 🙍♂️ means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the man frowning lands changes how it is taken.
12 — Difference
🙍♂️ vs 🙇♂️ — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Man Frowning
Code: U+1F64D U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-frowning:
Generally, it means someone is feeling sad, frustrated, or disappointed.
Unicode name: Man Bowing
Code: U+1F647 U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F · added 2016
Shortcode: :man-bowing:
Generally, 🙇♂️ means “I’m sorry” or “I apologize.”
13 — History
Where the 🙍♂️ Man Frowning emoji came from
Approved as part of Emoji 4.0, the man frowning has been on phones for years now — counting from its release, 10.
Same character every time — U+1F64D U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F 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.
Man Frowning was approved as U+1F64D U+200D U+2642 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 4.0 (2016). 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. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
14 — FAQ