Frowning face with open mouth Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face featuring wide, open eyes and a hollow, downturned mouth. It captures a moment of sudden surprise, distress, or a mild sense of disappointment.

Usage Context

This emoji is the go-to reaction for bad news, unexpected mistakes, or situations that leave you momentarily stunned. It sits right between the neutral 😐 and the more dramatic, panicked expression of 😱. It is frequently used to express a sense of 'oh no' or genuine concern during a conversation.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of Emoji 1.0, this face was designed to fill the gap between expressions of pure sadness and active shock. It draws inspiration from early 2000s Japanese emoticons, which often used specific punctuation to convey a sense of deflation or loss of words.

Details

Glyph

😦

Unicode

U+1F626

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f626:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE26;

Specifications

Vendor Microsoft

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-concerned

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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