Emoticons have continued to evolve over the past few years, having integrated our communication codes, in particular our written language. This is obvious, as their use leads to a more enriched and dynamic conversation compared to that made with a single visual of the text characters. Currently, Internet users can no longer do without it, that almost all messages and comments on social networks contain it. In this article, we tell you about this emoji 😞, which a priori expresses disappointment. Discover its origin, then its meanings and uses, and finally its characteristics.
The origin of the 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.
😞 Emoji meaning and examples of use
Several emojis allow to express the various states of annoyance and the smiley is one of them 😞, it is called disappointed face emoji, expressing of course disappointment. Some emojis look a lot like him, including the very disappointed face emoji ☹️ and the slightly disappointed face emoji 🙁.
This emoji is represented by eyes closed and curving downward to mark disappointment and dejection, which is accentuated with sagging eyebrows (sometimes without eyebrows), and slightly lowered curved mouth. All that is unhappy emotion can be translated by this smiley, if we only mention regret, disappointment, sadness, or even remorse.
In a few words, here are the affects that can be translated by the emoji 😞:
- Sadness ;
- discouragement;
- Disappointment ;
- impotence;
- Abandonment;
- Humiliation;
- The despair ;
- Resignation.
For its use in a sentence, here are some examples:
- I don't know what to do anymore.
- I miss you terribly 😞.
- He said horrible things to me in front of my friends 😞.
The characteristics of the smiley 😞
The characteristics of the disappointed face smiley are detailed in the following table:
| Version | 1.0 (2015-06-09) |
| Usual name | disappointed face |
| Category | Smilies and Emotions |
| Sub-category | worried-face |
| Apple designation | disappointed face |
| code point | U+1F61E Copy |
| Decimal | ALT+128542 |
| unicode | 6.0 (2010-10-11) |
| Key words | Disappointed-face |
| Other names | · Fatalistic emoji;
· Resigned emoji. |
You are sad, disappointed, discouraged in the face of a situation or you feel humiliated after what someone has said to you or done to you, do not hesitate to use the 😞 emoji with your posts to show him how you feel.
