The anguished face is that instant “oh no” + “yikes” combo you fire off when your soul briefly leaves your body—like when autocorrect betrays you, the group chat plans go expensive, or you realize you hit Reply All. It’s the digital equivalent of a silent gulp, perfect for mild panic, secondhand embarrassment, or a dramatic gasp without going full horror-movie scream. People use it for cringe moments, unfortunate plot twists, and those stomach-drop revelations that are bad, but not apocalyptic. It often rides alongside captions like “help,” “I—,” “me rn,” and “my bank account said no.”
On Apple devices, this emoji is a front-facing yellow face with big, round eyes, eyebrows arched upward and pinched in the middle, and a small open frown—like a muted gasp frozen in time. The styling has that glossy iOS sheen, with clean lines and a centered, slightly oval mouth. It sits somewhere between worried and terrified: more dramatic than a simple frown, less theatrical than the face screaming in fear. Think soft scream, maximum dread, minimum decibels.
Online, it’s a go-to for cringe threads, sports choke moments, and “I audibly gasped” reactions to TV twists, K-pop comeback chaos, or messy celebrity news. It’s also used sarcastically to fake shock when you were totally expecting the disaster anyway. Drop it as a playful overreaction in DMs, or pair it with “send help” for an instantly relatable meme-vibe. When you need to say “this is not fine” without lighting the room on fire, 😧 does the job.
A face with round eyes, wide downturned gapping mouth and eyebrows. This is the standard frowning face for emoji with eyebrows. Something unpleasant is happening to this emoji as it is suffering from some sort of severe mental or physical pain.
| Twitter Emoji Popularity (Rank) | 191 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 | :anguished: |
| Keywords | Pain, Anguish, Ouch, Misery, Distress, Grief |
| 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) | 1f627 |
| Formal Unicode Notation | U+1F627 |
| Decimal Code Point(s) | 128551 | UTF-8 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0xA7 |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F 98 A7 |
| UTF-8 Octal Bytes | 360 237 230 247 |
| UTF-16 Hex (C Syntax) | 0xD83D 0xDE27 |
| UTF-16 Hex | d83dde27 |
| UTF-16 Dec | 55357 56871 |
| UTF-32 Hex (C Syntax) | 0x0001F627 |
| UTF-32 Hex | 01F627 |
| UTF-32 Dec | 128551 |
| Python Src | u"\U0001F627" |
| PHP Src | "\xf0\x9f\x98\xa7" |
| C/C++/Java Src | "\uD83D\uDE27" |
