Smileys are seen everywhere in the social networks, in the various posts, comments, messages, among others. They are an integral part of all forms of expression used by Internet users, whether in everyday life or in the professional world. The use of emojis makes it look cooler, but also allows each user to express their feelings even without writing a word. Here, we tell you about the smiley ☹, its origin, its meaning and its use as well as its characteristics.
The origin of the emoji ☹
Below we give you in detail the contents of the proposal of the smiley ☹ with the name and the proposal number and the detailed files:
- Proposal number: L2/11-052
- Proposal name: Wingdings and Webdings symbols – Preliminary study (revised)
- Proposed by : Michael Suignard
- Year of proposal: 2011
- Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 132
- Proposal file : No.052, 2011 PDF: WINGDING / No.052, 2011 PDF: R WINGDING
In summary, this emoji is derived from proposal L2/11-052(2011), having been approved by the Unicode Consortium. So it was released in emoji version 1.0 in 2015-06-09.
☹ Emoji Meaning and Use
It is called “unhappy face emoji” or “very disappointed face emoji”. On all chat platforms, whether on Messenger, on Whatsapp, on Skype, among other things, he is depicted with two fixed-looking oval eyes, with a mouth pointing downwards, expressing sulkiness. This emoji is devoid of eyebrows to highlight a worried and pained face.
By using this emoji, you can easily express your annoyance, displeasure and disappointment. You can also use it to react to somewhat sad and disappointing posts on the networks as well as to any information that you don't like. However, the context and tone of the discussion using the ☹ emoji remains that of teasing since it is a mimicry associated with the expressive universe of childhood.
In summary, this emoji is used to express:
- Sadness ;
- Sulking;
- Disappointment ;
- The worry.
Here are five example sentences containing this ☹ emoji:
- I lost my car key this morning ☹.
- I failed again ☹.
- I told you not to do it again ☹.
- You won't come suddenly ☹?
- You say anything ☹!
Characteristics of the emoji ☹
Discover below the characteristics of this emoji, including its different names, its code point, its decimal, the category to which it belongs, the keywords to recognize it, etc.
| Version | 1.0 (2015-06-09) |
| Usual name | displeased face |
| Category | Smilies and Emotions |
| Sub-category | worried-face |
| Apple designation | scowling face |
| code point | U+2639 FE0F Copy
2639 – ☹ disgruntled face FE0F – ️ VARIATION SELECTOR-16 |
| Decimal | ALT+9785 ALT+65039 |
| unicode | None |
| Key words | disgruntled-face |
| Other names | · Scowling face emoji;
· Angry Emoji; · Emoji pouting. |
Now you know all about the unhappy emoji ☹. Do not hesitate to use it on your messages to express what you feel.
