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 Microsoft

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-concerned

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License MIT

Microsoft Fluent License

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