Persevering face Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face with an arched, furrowed brow, closed eyes, and a mouth pulled into a grimace that reveals upper teeth. It captures the look of someone straining through a difficult task or wincing at a bad situation.

Usage Context

This face is the go-to for expressing frustration, holding back tears, or dealing with a situation that is physically or emotionally draining. It is frequently used when someone is having a bad day or trying to keep it together while feeling overwhelmed, often appearing alongside 😫 or 😤 to signal stress.

History

Added to the Unicode standard in 2010 as part of the initial emoji wave that standardized faces across different mobile platforms, it draws inspiration from early Japanese cellular text-based emoticons that used punctuation to convey a pained, scrunched-up expression.

Details

Glyph

😣

Unicode

U+1F623

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f623:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE23;

Specifications

Vendor Twitter/X

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-concerned

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License CC-BY 4.0

Twemoji Attribution

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

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