What does ☹️ Frowning Face mean?
A fuller frown than 🙁, this face shows plain unhappiness. Like ☺️, it began life as a text symbol, so some apps still display it in black and white. It covers sadness, disappointment and sympathy when something genuinely goes wrong. It feels a touch more serious than its slight counterpart, yet less tearful than 😢.
☹️ Frowning Face is an emoji from the Smileys & Emotion category (concerned faces), added in Emoji 0.7 in 2014. People use it in messages about frown and sad.
Example messages
☹️ Frowning Face on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Frowning Face looks on each platform.
More concerned faces emojis
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Frowning Face emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Frowning Face emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and ☹️ is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :white_frowning_face:.
When was the Frowning Face emoji added?
☹️ Frowning Face was added in Emoji 0.7, released in 2014. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does ☹️ look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Frowning Face. The underlying code (U+2639 U+FE0F) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.