The frowning face with open mouth is the universal “oh no…” reaction—like you just realized your mic’s been on this entire Zoom call. It lands between disappointment and a soft gasp: not full-on scream, not tears, just a worried little whoops. People drop it for mini disasters (typo in your bio, card declined, spoiler you didn’t want) and for polite cringe or sympathetic winces. In texts and memes, it reads as “yikes,” “soft panic,” or “I messed up but gently.” It also does numbers as sarcastic drama when something minor goes wrong: forgot my coffee? Tragic, clearly.
A face with round eyes and wide downturned gapping mouth. This is the standard frowning face for emoji. The emoji is not a happy camper and is not afraid to hide it.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 357 of 2393 |
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| ASCII Conversion | |
| "Short Code" Name | :frowning: |
| Keywords | Frown, Sad, Pout, Sulk, Glower |
| Unicode Category | Emoticons |
| Unicode Range | 1F600–1F64F |
| Unicode Subcategory | Faces |
| Emoji Code Version | iOS 6 - Current |
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| 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) | 1f626 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F626 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128550 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0xA6 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 98 A6 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 230 246 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE26 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde26 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56870 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F626 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F626 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128550 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F626" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x98\xa6" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE26" |