😧 Meaning: What does the anguished face emoji mean?

Smileys can be used to express a range of emotions, including sadness, joy and annoyance. Depending on their representation, the expression can be light or exaggerated. For example, the simple fact that one has eyebrows and the other doesn't makes the difference between two emojis expressing surprise or displeasure.

In this article, we'll talk about the different meanings of the anguished face emoji 😧 which is very similar todisgruntled emoji with open mouth 😦. Find out more about its origins, uses and characteristics.

😧 Meaning and some examples of the use of the anguished face emoji.

This 😧 emoji can be used to accompany a message that expresses anxiety and anguishor to react to shocking information. With the eyebrows curved downwards, it also indicates a worried state.

This emoji features two small oval eyes under slightly drooping, wrinkled eyebrows and a semi-circular open mouth. Its main expression is sad and confuseda somewhat troubled emotional state, which seeks appeasement. It's the frowns that accentuate the anguish and anxiety expressed by this emoji.

It thus belongs to the group of emojis expressing affects in the same family as annoyance, and is called the "anguished face emoji".

On some platforms and messengers, the appearance of this emoji may vary. The difference is most often seen in the eyebrows, sometimes they are found a little more raised, sometimes they are more curved downwards. In any case, the affects most often indicated by the anxious face emoji are:

• The stress ;
• Fear ;
• anxiety;
• The surprise ;
• Anxiety;
• The confusion.

Several example sentences can include this emoji in text messages, such as the following:

1. It scares me.
2. I have an exam to do tomorrow, when I haven't even had time to revise 😧.
3. Tell me that's not true 😧.
4. I'm confused 😧.

The origin of the anguished face emoji

The proposal behind the 😧 emoji is detailed below, including name, number, name of submitter, year, number of emojis in it, and case.

• Number : L2/10-142
• Last name : Summary of directory for future amendment of ISO/IEC 10646:2011 (WG2 N3834)
• Proposed by : Michael Suignard
• Year of proposal: 2010
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 13
• Case : No.142, 2010 PDF: N3834

Given the resemblance, it is obvious that the emojis 😧 and 😦 belong to this same proposal, which the Unicode Consortium has approved. This proposal was finally published in Emoji version 1.0 in 2015-06-09.

The characteristics of this emoji

Discover the characteristics of the emoji in this table:

Here you have all the information about the anxious emoji 😧. Feel free to use it on your posts to express your anguish, your annoyance, or your fear.