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Chart Decreasing Emoji 📉

A red line sliding from the top right down to the bottom left of a graph sheet, the reverse of 📈 Chart Increasing. Any downward trend gets tagged with it, falling sales, a dip in mood, a stock having a bad week, without any peaks to soften the fall.

What 📉 means

Same tall sheet of graph paper as its counterpart, 📈 Chart Increasing — same grid lines too, just flipped so the trend line reads as a slide instead of a climb.

The 📉 Chart Decreasing emoji signifies reduction, deterioration, and a sense of worsening, and degrowing. Due to the steep low without any peaks of growth, this emoji suggests a constant negative trend.

How and when to use it

If you're talking about someone who's impression or idea decreased with time, or that someone or something's persona is just a facade, use 📉. For instance, "It's all a hoax. Two weeks into it, and you begin to question everything about it 📉".
📉 can be used in positive connotations too - to indicate reduction in pain-bearing attributes, qualities, or scenarios. Like, "My standard of living in the past two years 📈 and my negative beliefs about myself 📉" or "My separation anxiety each time I see my cat 📉".
As mentioned in the previous point's example, you can use 📉 and 📈 in the same context that showcases contrast. For example - ups and downs, highs and lows, etc. - "You'd come across all sorts of days. The good and the bad 📉📈. Smile through it all and know that it ain't the end of the world".
From an obvious POV, 📉 would fall into captions for posts that are about trends, economy, business, and anything to do with graphs.

Other Names

📉 Negative Trend
📉 Negative Trend Chart
📉 Reducing Graph
📉 Downward Graph Line
📉 Down Pointing Graph
📉 Negative Chart
📉 Chart With Downwards Trend

The lowdown

Category: Objects › office
Codepoints: U+1F4C9
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :chart_with_downwards_trend:
Keywords: chart, data, decreasing, down, downward, graph, negative, trend

How it looks across platforms

Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.