Slightly frowning face Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face featuring simple, open eyes and a modest downward curve for the mouth. It conveys a sense of mild dissatisfaction or a bad mood that isn't quite as intense as a full-blown pout.

Usage Context

This face acts as a softer alternative to the more dramatic ☹️ or the heartbroken 😞. Users often deploy it to express minor annoyance, disagreement, or a general sense of 'meh' when things aren't going exactly as planned.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2014, this emoji was introduced to fill the gap between neutral expressions and deep sorrow, allowing for a more nuanced scale of disappointment in mobile messaging.

Details

Glyph

🙁

Unicode

U+1F641

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f641:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE41;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-concerned

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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