☹️Frowning Face Emoji
Generally, it means someone is feeling sad or upset. It's a straightforward way to show you're not having a great time.
The ☹️ emoji is a simple frowning face.
- Unicode
- U+2639 U+FE0F
- Released
- 2014
- Shortcode
- :white_frowning_face:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the ☹️ Frowning Face emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
Frowning Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+2639 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your 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.
Frowning Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :white_frowning_face:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+2639.
How to type the ☹️ Frowning Face emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+2639 when there is no key at all.
Frowning 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
Frowning Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around 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.
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
Chat apps do not change U+2639, 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
Code: U+2639 U+FE0F · added 2014
Shortcode: :white_frowning_face:
Generally, it means someone is feeling sad or upset.
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 emoji came from
It arrived with the 0.7 release of the standard, which dates the frowning face to 2014.
Frowning Face was approved as U+2639 U+FE0F and shipped in Emoji 0.7 (2014). 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.