🙁

Slightly Frowning Face Emoji 🙁

A gently downturned mouth on an otherwise calm face keeps things low-key in slightly frowning face — nothing scrunched or wet about it. It fits bad news that deserves a nod, not a full meltdown, or a mood that's just quietly off.

What 🙁 means

A yellow face with blank, open eyes, and a low-frowned mouth. This emoji suggests emotions of sadness, disappointment, anxiousness - but all of lesser intensity.

The 🙁 Slightly Frowning Face personifies the phrase "I don't know what to say" in a negative or sad context. It can be used to comfort someone sad or worried, or narrate something moderately unhappy.

How and when to use it

  • If someone just told you something sad, and you don't really know how to react for starters, use this emoji, and then build up the emotion.
  • You can use this emoji while telling about something sad.
  • This emoji can also be used as a reaction to something sad that you watched or read.
  • If you are disappointed by something in the context of that conversation.

Other Names

  • 🙁 Disappointed
  • 🙁 Slightly Anxious
  • 🙁 Moderately Sad
  • 🙁 Slightly Frowning Face
  • 🙁 Blank Face
  • 🙁 Frowned Face
  • 🙁 Slightly Frowned
  • 🙁 Slight Concern
    🙁 Unsure

🙁 in real conversations

What does 🙁 mean in texting?

Mild disappointment, a quiet "aw, that stinks" — a small frown, not a full breakdown. "Rain's back for the weekend 🙁" is a shrug of a complaint, not real distress, and it works just as well for a canceled plan or a boring dinner option.

Is 🙁 different from â˜šī¸?

Barely — they're near-identical faces, and most keyboards only offer one of the two. Where both exist, â˜šī¸ tends to render with a slightly more pronounced frown, but in practice people use whichever one their keyboard shows them without thinking about the difference.

What does 🙁 mean from a guy?

Understated letdown — plans falling through, bad news landing softly rather than dramatically. It's the low-key version of sad, used when something's mildly disappointing rather than genuinely upsetting, closer to a shrug than a real sigh over a lost weekend.

The lowdown

Category
Smileys & Emotion â€ē face-concerned
Codepoints
U+1F641
Emoji version
Emoji 1.0
Shortcodes
:slightly_frowning_face::slight_frown: Discord
Keywords
face, frown, frowning, sad, slightly

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.

slightly frowning face on Apple
Apple
slightly frowning face on Google
Google
slightly frowning face on Twitter/X
Twitter/X
slightly frowning face on Facebook
Facebook
slightly frowning face on Microsoft
Microsoft

⚡ Quick round

Which joined the keyboard first — 🙁 Slightly Frowning Face or 🧔 Person: Beard?

Runs with a crowd

🙁 keeps company in sad emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.

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