Woman frowning: medium skin tone Emoji
People
A woman with a medium skin tone sporting a frown, with her hand resting against her forehead in a classic gesture of exasperation or annoyance. The character wears a neutral expression of defeat or irritation.
Usage Context
This emoji is the go-to for signaling that you're having a rough day, dealing with a headache, or just plain fed up with a situation. It communicates a level of disappointment that is slightly more active than the standard 😞, often implying that the person is physically holding their head in frustration.
History
The frowning woman was added to the Unicode standard in 2016 as part of the push for more inclusive gender and skin tone variations. Before these options existed, users had to rely on generic yellow faces like ☹️ to express negative emotions.
Details
Glyph
🙍🏽♀
Unicode
U+1F64D U+1F3FD U+200D U+2640
Shortcode
:emoji_u1f64d_1f3fd_200d_2640:
HTML Entity
����‍♀
Specifications
Vendor Google
Category People
Subcategory person-gesture
Unicode Version 6.0
Emoji Version 1.0
License CC-BY 4.0
Google Noto License
Emoji graphics by Twitter/X, licensed under CC-BY 4.0
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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