🙍

Person Frowning Emoji 🙍

Shoulders-up, side-parted hair, and a visible frown — this reads as quiet disappointment rather than open anger. People send it to flag that they're upset or not okay with something, usually without wanting to turn it into a full argument.

What 🙍 means

A frowning face and side-parted hair define this gender-neutral person, shown from the shoulders up. This emoji refers to a sad, disappointed, nervous, anxious, and an uncomfortable person.

Although the 🙍 Person: Frowning emoji is said to be gender-neutral, the emoji usually shows the face of a woman. It's is available in the designated skin tones on almost all platforms, the clothing style and color of this emoji would vary from one platform to another.

How and when to use it

Use 🙍 to denote disappointment and embarrassment (or that rare combination of the two) in your chats.
You could also use 🙍 as a reaction to something sad and slightly heartbreaking that you came across on social media.
If you're sending a post to someone that's just plainly sad, you could accompany that post with the 🙍 emoji.
If someone's been sensing that you've been low over chat, you can use 🙍 to show that you're not feeling that great.
🙍 can also be used in captions if you're posting a saddening photo, video or even just a message.
You can use 🙍 as a reaction to something sad or disappointing a friend told you over text.

Other Names

🙍 Sad Face
🙍 Frowning Face
🙍 Sad
🙍 Disappointed
🙍 Nervous
🙍 Vulnerable
🙍 Woman Frowning
🙍 Sad Person
🙍 Low
🙍 Feeling Down
🙍 Helpless
🙍 Sad Person

The lowdown

Category: People & Body › person-gesture
Codepoints: U+1F64D
Emoji version: Emoji 0.6
Shortcodes: :frowning_person: GitHub:person_frowning: Slack · Discord
Keywords: annoyed, disappointed, disgruntled, disturbed, frown, frowning, frustrated, gesture, irritated, person, upset

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.