→ 2639 ☹ white frowning face
The slightly frowning face is the universal 'womp womp'—a pocket-sized sigh for life’s minor inconveniences. It’s what you send when your coffee order is off by one syrup pump, your friend cancels last minute, or the spoiler hits your timeline five minutes before the finale. It delivers micro-sadness and gentle disappointment without going full dramatic. Translation: not mad, just bummed.
On Apple/iOS, it’s a front-facing yellow circle with a soft gradient, simple dot eyes, and a tiny downturned mouth that looks like a very polite parenthesis. No eyebrows, no tears, no theatrics—just a restrained frown. The mouth is shallow, the vibe is calm, and the whole face feels like a considerate sigh. That subtle design sells the tone: respectful letdown, awkward sorry, or semi-salty “eh.”
Online, it captions minor Ls with lowercase vibes—welp, oof, yikes-but-polite. It’s also a go-to for light sarcasm, like pretending to be tragically inconvenienced by something good: “Ugh, guess I have to go to the beach again 🙁.” Use it too much and it can read a bit passive-aggressive, but paired with a soft message it feels empathetic and human. It’s lighter than the classic frowning face ☹️ and nowhere near the puppy-eyed drama of 🥺—just a tasteful sprinkle of sad.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 132 of 2393 |
| 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 | :slight_frown: |
| Keywords |
| Unicode Category | Emoticons |
| Unicode Range | 1F600–1F64F |
| Unicode Subcategory | Faces |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 8 - 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) | 1f641 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F641 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128577 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x99 0x81 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 99 81 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 231 201 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE41 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde41 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56897 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F641 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F641 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128577 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F641" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x99\x81" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE41" |
