😞 Meaning: What does the disappointed face emoji mean?

Emoticons have continued to evolve over the last few years, becoming part of our communication codes, particularly our written language. This is obvious, given that their use leads to a more enriched and dynamic conversation than that made with a single visual text character. Nowadays, Internet users can't do without them, as almost all messages and comments on social networks contain them.

In this article, we tell you about this disappointed😞 emoji, which a priori expresses disappointment. Discover what are the meanings of the disappointed face emoji😞its uses, and finally its characteristics.

😞 Disappointed emoji: What does 😞 mean and how do you use it?

Several emojis can be used to express various states of annoyance, and the smiley face is one of them 😞 we call it the disappointed face emoji, of course expressing disappointment.

This emoji is represented by eyes closed and curved downwards to mark the disappointment andallowanceThis is accentuated by the drooping eyebrows (sometimes no eyebrows), and the slightly lowered, curved mouth. Everything unhappy emotion can be translated by this smiley, if we were to mention only regret, disappointment, sadness or remorse.

In a few words, here are the affects that can be translated by the emoji 😞:

• The sadness ;
• the discouragement ;
• The disappointment ;
• L'impotence ;
• L'discontinued ;
• L'humiliation ;
• the despair ;
• The resignation.

For its use in a sentence, here are some examples:

1. I don't know what to do anymore.
2. I miss you terribly 😞.
3. He said horrible things to me in front of my friends 😞.

By the way, some emojis look a lot like it, including the very disappointed face emoji ☹️ and the slightly disappointed face emoji 🙁.

The origin of the disappointed face emoji

This emoji is from a 2007 and 2009 proposal, the details of which are presented below:

Emoji Proposition 1

• Number : L2/07-257
• Last name : Working Draft Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols (Associated tables in ZIP file)
• Proposed by : Markus Scherer, Kat Momoi, Mark Davis,
• Year of proposal: 2007
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.257, 2007 HTML: EMOJI WD / No.257, 2007 ZIP: EMOJI WD TABLE

Emoji Proposition 2

• Number : L2/09-026
• Last name : Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
• Proposed by : Kat Momoi, Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, Yasuo Kida, Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.), Darick Tong (Google Inc.)
• Year of proposal: 2009
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.026, 2009 PDF: R EMOJI PROPOSED / No.026, 2009 PDF: EMOJI PROPOSED

Proposal L2/07‑257(2007), L2/09‑026(2009) was approved by the Unicode Consortium and in 2015-06-02 it was released as Emoji version 1.0.

Characteristics of the disappointed smiley

The characteristics of the disappointed face smiley are detailed in the following table:

If you're sad, disappointed or discouraged by a situation, or feel humiliated by something someone has said or done to you, don't hesitate to use the 😞 emoji with your messages to show them how you feel.

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