The worried face is the universal “uh-oh” expression—like realizing you hit Reply All or remembering the oven might still be on. It signals mild anxiety, concern, or a soft apology, the digital equivalent of biting your lip and hoping everything’s still chill. People drop it when they’re nervous about a test result, when they sense awkward vibes in a chat, or to show empathy without going full dramatic meltdown. In memes, it often captions those pre-cringe moments: me checking my bank app after brunch, or me waiting for the group chat to respond to my risky message.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing yellow face with a tiny downturned mouth, wide oval eyes, and gently arched brows that meet in the middle—classic “concerned but coping.” The gradient shading gives it that soft, 3D iOS gloss; no sweat drop, no tears—just quiet alarm. That lack of extra props makes it perfect for subtlety: worried, but not panicking; sad-ish, but not sobbing.
Texting-wise, it’s great for softening hard truths (“I might be late 😟”), for check-ins (“You good? 😟”), or as a follow-up to an accidental chaos message (“So… about that printer I ‘fixed’ 😟”). It also gets used ironically when you’re not actually worried—more like faux-innocent: who, me? worried? never. Pair it with nervous-laugh slang (low-key, yikes, oof) and it reads instantly, culturally fluent—an overthinker’s favorite reaction button.
A face with round eyes, large downturned curved mouth and high-set curved eyebrows. Makes you feel anxious, uncertain, or uneasy just looking at this emoji.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 110 of 2393 |
| Apple/iOS Picture |  |
| Google Android Picture |  |
| Google Hangouts Picture |  |
| Twitter.com Picture |  |
| LG Emoji Picture |  |
| Samsung Emoji Picture |  |
| Phantom Open Emoji Picture |  |
| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :worried: |
| Keywords | Worried, Anxious, Distressed, Nervous, Tense |
| Unicode Category | Emoticons |
| Unicode Range | 1F600–1F64F |
| Unicode Subcategory | Faces |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 6 - Current |
|---|---|
| UTF-8 Unicode Character(s) | 😟 |
| UTF-8 Character Count | 1 |
| Character(s) In Input | |
| AppleColorEmoji Font (available in OSX/iOS) | 😟 |
| Decimal HTML Entity | 😟 |
| Hexadecimal HTML Entity | 😟 |
| Hex Code Point(s) | 1f61f |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F61F |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128543 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0x9F |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 98 9F |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 230 237 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE1F |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde1f |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56863 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F61F |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F61F |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128543 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F61F" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x98\x9f" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE1F" |
