☹
Frowning Face Emoji
Smileys & Emotion
Meaning & usage
The frowning face emoji ☹ is most often used to express sad, unhappy, frown.
People reach for it to signal sad without typing a thing.
It looks slightly different on Apple, Google, Samsung, and other platforms, but the meaning stays the same everywhere.
Search keywords
sadunhappyfrowndisappointedupsetmegafrown
Names in other languages
| Korean | 찡그린, 얼굴, 슬픔 |
| Japanese | 困った顔, しかめ面, 困った |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 不满, 不爽, 不高兴 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 不滿意, 不爽, 悲哀 |
| Spanish | cara, con, el |
| French | visage, mecontent, malheureux |
| German | dusteres, gesicht, deprimiert |
| Portuguese | rosto, descontente, decepcionado |
| Italian | faccina, imbronciata, corrucciato |
| Russian | грустит, грустныи, досада |
Codepoints
U+2639 — works everywhere Unicode emoji are supported: iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and the web.