Chart decreasing Emoji

Objects

A downward-trending red line graph set against a white background, featuring a small square icon indicating a drop in value. The line clearly plunges from left to right, signaling a loss or negative trajectory.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to way to illustrate financial losses, falling stock prices, or declining performance metrics. It’s frequently used in professional settings to highlight poor quarterly results, or sarcastically to describe a personal failure, like a crashed social life or a bad streak of luck. It is often contrasted with the upward momentum shown in 📈.

History

Introduced in Unicode 6.0 in 2010, the chart decreasing emoji was part of a major expansion of pictographs designed to make mobile messaging more functional for business communication. It mirrors the visual language used in early financial ticker displays and spreadsheet software that defined the desktop computing era.

Details

Glyph

📉

Unicode

U+1F4C9

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f4c9:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDCC9;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Objects

Subcategory office

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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