The anguished face emoji shows a face with raised eyebrows, open eyes, and a downturned, toothless open mouth. It expresses distress, worry, or shocked concern â reacting to bad or troubling news with a mix of anxiety and dismay rather than plain surprise.
What ð§ means
A yellow face with raised eyebrows, open eyes and an open, toothless, downward-curved mouth. This emoji shows shades of sadness, disappointment, worry, shock and concern, in general.
The ð§ Anguished Face emoji is the same as the ðĶ Frowning Face With Open Mouth emoji, but with eyebrows. While it signifies a negative sense of surprise and awe, this emoji also signals anxiousness, nervousness, and distress - as suggested by the name.
How and when to use it
- If you're telling your buddies or your mum about being anxious or nervous about starting a new job or something, use this emoji in that conversation.
- You can also use this emoji as a reaction to something visibly disturbing and sad.
- If you just witnessed something shocking, apply this emoji in that context.
- Use this emoji while telling your friends about the shocking incident you just witnessed.
Other Names
- ð§ Shocked
- ð§ Surprised
- ð§ Distressed
- ð§ Stressed Out
- ð§ Worried
- ð§ Pained Face
- ð§ Sad
- ð§ Hurt
- ð§ Oh
- ð§ Tensed
- ð§ Worried
At a glance
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion âš face-concerned
- Codepoints
U+1F627- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:anguished:- Keywords
- anguished, face, forgot, scared, scary, stressed, surprise, unhappy, what, wow
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens.
⥠Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first â ð§ Anguished Face or ðĶĒ Swan?
Runs with a crowd
ð§ keeps company in sad emojis â tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.