The downcast face with sweat emoji shows a face with lowered eyes, a sad mouth, and a large drop of sweat on its brow. It expresses stress, exhaustion, or anxious strain — used for a hard, draining effort, a narrowly avoided disaster, or the pressure of pushing through something difficult.
What 😓 means
A yellow face with lowered eyes that are slightly closed, a downward curve denoting a sad mouth and a big blue drop of sweat dripping from one side of the head.
The 😓 Downcast Face With Sweat emoji signifies an intense feeling of stress, fear, tension and sadness too. The emoji can also refer to painful hard work, perseverance, dedication, and a sense of 'giving it my all'.
How and when to use it
- If you're telling someone close about a tough project or situation you're working through, use this emoji as a way of showing them that you're putting in all your effort and it's still taking forever to work.
- Use this emoji as a reaction to something moderately sad.
- This emoji can also be used in conversations about hard work, struggle, and perseverance.
- Send this emoji as a way of sharing in someone's everyday challenges and difficulties over text.
- It can be brought into contexts of less intense grief and helplessness as well.
- You can use this emoji to show painful disappointment too.
- If you're talking about losing something or someone in your life, use this emoji in that chat.
Other Names
- 😓 Disappointed
- 😓 Hard Working
- 😓 Persevering
- 😓 Sad Sweat Face
- 😓 Helpless
- 😓 Tensed
- 😓 Fear
- 😓 Helpless
The lowdown
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion › face-concerned
- Codepoints
U+1F613- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6
- Shortcodes
:sweat:- Keywords
- close, cold, downcast, face, feels, headache, nervous, sad, scared, sweat, yikes
How it looks across platforms
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⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 😓 Downcast Face with Sweat or 🦟 Mosquito?
Runs with a crowd
😓 keeps company in sad emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.