Confounded face Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face with crinkled, X-shaped eyes and a wide, trembling, wavy mouth. The expression conveys a state of being completely overwhelmed, frustrated, or physically nauseated.

Usage Context

This face is the go-to for reacting to a terrible joke, a bad taste in your mouth, or a stressful situation that leaves you at a total loss for words. It is frequently sent alongside 😫 or 😵 to emphasize a sense of internal chaos or general unpleasantness.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010, this design grew out of early Japanese emoticons like the ':S' or '>:S' text strings used on bulletin boards and message forums to signal confusion or physical discomfort before graphical emojis became the universal standard.

Details

Glyph

😖

Unicode

U+1F616

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f616:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE16;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-concerned

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0

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