The man frowning emoji is peak “not mad, just disappointed” energy—a polite little storm cloud in facial form. It’s the go-to when something’s off but not end-of-the-world bad: late-night “bruh,” soft “yikes,” or the classic “why did you microwave fish at work?” reply. People drop it when their team loses by one, when the food delivery forgets the sauce, or when the group chat plots without them. It can also go ironic: used after a dumb pun, a typo, or a flex that deserves a gentle side-eye instead of fire emojis.
On Apple/iOS, he’s a clean, front-facing bust with short hair, knitted brows, and a small downturned mouth; think subtle frown, not cartoon meltdown. The colors lean natural and softly shaded, with a neutral shirt (often bluish) and that polished Apple gradient that makes the expression pop. No hands, no props—just a straight-on, “sigh… okay” face you can feel through the screen.
Culturally, it carries teacher-dad energy—“I expected better, champ”—and pairs well with texts like “sooo” or “this ain’t it.” It even reads a little flirtatious in a puppy-eyes way when someone’s fishing for reassurance or pizza slices. In meme-land, it’s a gentle mood marker for sad boy hours, a reaction to dry jokes, or a subtle timeout for bad takes without lighting the timeline on fire.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 1270 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture | Image not available |
| Twitter.com Picture | Image not available |
| LG Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Samsung Emoji Picture | Image not available |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture | Not created yet |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | |
| Keywords |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 10 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 🙍♂️ |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 4 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 🙍♂️ |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 🙍 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 🙍 ‍ ♂ ️ |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f64d, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F64D, U+200D, U+2642, U+FE0F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128589, 8205, 9794, 65039 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x8D, 0xE2 0x80 0x8D, 0xE2 0x99 0x82, 0xEF 0xB8 0x8F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 8D, E2 80 8D, E2 99 82, EF B8 8F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 215, 342 200 215, 342 231 202, 357 270 217 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE4D, 0x200D, 0x2642, 0xFE0F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde4d, 200d, 2642, fe0f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56909, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F64D 0x0000200D 0x00002642 0x0000FE0F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F64D, 200D, 2642, FE0F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128589, 8205, 9794, 65039 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F64D\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x8d\xe2\x80\x8d\xe2\x99\x82\xef\xb8\x8f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE4D\u200D\u2642\uFE0F" |
