persevering face

Cara perseverando

Information

The persevering face is the digital version of clenching your jaw, squinting your eyes, and muttering, “we move.” It’s the go-to when you’re pushing through a deadline, slogging through leg day, or trying to open that jar that clearly has beef with you. Expect vibes of determined frustration, quiet pain, and heroic levels of “I got this… probably.” It shows up in texts as a soft “ugh” with grit, a pre-cry inhale, or a meme reaction to minor annoyances like Wi‑Fi buffering at 1% during the finale. People also drop it sarcastically—“me after sending one email”—or dramatically when resisting the group chat chaos or a late‑night snack. It can even turn flirty in a playful, “be good” kind of way, like you’re trying very hard to behave.

Definition

A face with tightly-closed (boomerang) eyes, large curved eyebrows and slightly downturned curved mouth. This is one determined emoji, bound to accomplish greatness. Bolster, sustain, or uphold. Insist. To persist in anything undertaken. To maintain in spite of difficulty or discouragement; continuing steadfastly. A champ!

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Emoji History The emoji code/ image log of changes.

1. This emoji was part of the proprietary / non-standardized emoji set first introduced by Japanese carriers like Softbank. These emojis became part of the Apple iPhone starting in iOS 2.2 as an unlockable feature on handsets sold in English speaking countries.
2. In iOS 5 / OSX 10.7, the underlying code that the Apple OS generates for this emoji was changed.

Emoji General Information

Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank)	113 of 2393
Apple/iOS Picture
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Samsung Emoji Picture
Phantom Open Emoji Picture
ASCII Conversion
"Short Code" Name	:persevere:
Keywords	Endure, Persevere

Unicode Category Information

Unicode Category	Emoticons
Unicode Range	1F600–1F64F
Unicode Subcategory	Faces

Editorial Comment

iEmoji old name: Sad and annoyed. Nothing seems to be going right.

Proposed Unicode Information & Notes

Unicode Category	Faces and Smiley's
Unicode Subcategory	Faces
Names & Annotations	PERSEVERING FACE Temporary Notes: failure, disappointment
Symbol Information	U+1F623 proposed
Proposal Identifier	e-33C

Character Mapping/Crosswalk Notes

DoCoMo	#Exp.32 'Enduring face' がまん顔 「gaman顔」 U+E72B SJIS-F9D0 JIS-7976
KDDI	#443 失敗 U+EAC2 SJIS-F396 JIS-7976
Softbank	#23 #old353 表情(あちゃー) 「表情(achiyaa)」 U+E406 SJIS-FB46

Emoji Character Encoding Data

Emoji Code Version	iOS 4 Code
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)	e406
Formal Unicode Notation	U+E406
Decimal Code Point(s)	58374
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xEE 0x90 0x86
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	EE 90 86
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	356 220 206
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xE406
UTF-16 Hex	e406
UTF-16 Dec	58374
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0000E406
UTF-32 Hex	E406
UTF-32 Dec	58374
Python Src	u"\uE406"
PHP Src	"\xee\x90\x86"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uE406"

Emoji Code Version	iOS 5 - 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)	1f623
Formal Unicode Notation	U+1F623
Decimal Code Point(s)	128547
UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax)	0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0xA3
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	F0 9F 98 A3
UTF-8 Octal Bytes	360 237 230 243
UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax)	0xD83D 0xDE23
UTF-16 Hex	d83dde23
UTF-16 Dec	55357 56867
UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax)	0x0001F623
UTF-32 Hex	01F623
UTF-32 Dec	128547
Python Src	u"\U0001F623"
PHP Src	"\xf0\x9f\x98\xa3"
C/C++/Java Src	"\uD83D\uDE23"

Emoji Character Encoding Data (equivalent or similiar)