☹️ The emoji displeased look expresses the sadness, disappointment, or dissatisfaction. His face, with no eyebrows and mouth turned downward conveys a negative emotion that is more pronounced than simply 🙁.
Here's everything you need to know about its meaning, usage, and technical specifications.
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☹️ Meaning and Use of the Disappointed Emoji
Its official name Unicode is Frowning Face. This face is easily recognizable on platforms such as Messenger, WhatsApp Where Skype : two oval eyes frozen and a mouth pointing downward, a sign of discontent. The absence of eyebrows accentuates his expression worried and saddened.
The display varies slightly depending on the platform:
- At the house of Apple, the expression seems gentler, closer to a a slight disappointment.
- At the house of Google, Microsoft and Samsung, the expression leans more toward a obvious sadness.
- On Android and Windows, the overall tone remains just as dark.
- It's the same symbol Unicode, but each version has its own nuances.
In practice, this emoji is used to express various emotions and feelings:
- The sadness ;
- The pout ;
- The disappointment and the dissatisfaction ;
- L'concern.
It's still milder than the anger : It often conveys a gentle sense of disappointment—for example, when you miss someone—without ever crossing the line into aggression. You can also use it to respond to a sad or disappointing post on social media.
Here are five examples of how to use it in conversation:
- I lost my car keys this morning ☹️.
- I failed again ☹️.
- I told you not to do that anymore ☹️.
- So you won't be coming after all ☹️?
- You're talking nonsense ☹️!
For a similar emotion, check out the related emojis: 😞 (disappointed look), 😟 (worried expression), 🙁 (looking slightly displeased), 😔 (thoughtful expression), 😢 (crying face) Where 😭 (a face shedding hot tears).
These faces represent a range of negative emotions, from mild sadness to tears.
The ☹️ remains the most distinctive of the unhappy faces without tears.
Characteristics of the unhappy emoji
Here are all the technical specifications for the ☹️ emoji: names, code point Unicode, category, and associated keywords. This data allows you to copy or insert the symbol into any image or web page.
| Official name | Displeased expression (Frowning Face) |
| Version | 1.0 (introduced on June 9, 2015) |
| Usual name | displeased face |
| Category | Smileys and emotions |
| Sub-category | Worried expression |
| Appellation Apple | scowling face |
| code point | U+2639 U+FE0F 2639: ☹ unhappy face FE0F: Dimming Selector-16 |
| Decimal (keyboard shortcut) | ALT+9785, then ALT+65039 |
| Key words | displeased, face, sad, disappointed, unhappy |
| Other names | Frowning face emoji, angry emoji, sulking emoji |
To insert it into a message, the easiest way is to copy and paste the ☹️ character directly. On a computer, you can also use the decimal notation using the ALT key. On mobile, search for « displeased look » in the emoji keyboard to find it in an instant.
The Origin of the Frowning Face Emoji
The ☹️ emoji originated from the proposal L2/11-052, submitted in 2011 by Michel Suignard to the Consortium Unicode. This proposal, titled Wingdings and Webdings symbols, Preliminary study (revised), comprised 132 emojis in total.
Here are the details of this proposal:
- Proposal Number: L2/11-052
- Proposed by : Michel Suignard
- Year: 2011
- Number of emojis in the proposal: 132
- Related topics: No. 052, 2011 PDF: WINGDING / No. 052, 2011 PDF: R WINGDING
Once approved, the proposal led to the emoji being released in the Emoji 1.0, the June 9, 2015. Its code point Unicode is U+2639 U+FE0F. The variant FE0F forces color rendering rather than just a black-and-white symbol.
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