😖Confounded Face Emoji

😖 confounded face is encoded at U+1F616 and shipped with Unicode 6.0 (2010). Unicode files it under Smileys & Emotion → Concerned, alongside 26 related emojis.

What 😖 confounded face means

The largest face subgroup, running from mild confusion through to full panic. Most of it is not literal: 😭 is used for laughing and for being overwhelmed at least as much as for crying, and 🥺 pleading face, added in 2018, became a way to ask for things with performed helplessness rather than actual distress.

Unicode tags this one annoyed, confounded and confused and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Concerned.

Copy variants

Different presentations of the same character — useful when a platform renders one form and not the other.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F616`
HTML hex	`😖`
HTML decimal	`😖`
CSS	`\1F616`
JavaScript	`\u{1F616}`
Python	`\U0001F616`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE16`
Rust	`\u{1f616}`
Swift	`\u{1F616}`
PHP	`\u{1F616}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%96`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 96`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE16`
Base64	`8J+Ylg==`
Decimal	`128534`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

annoyed
confounded
confused
cringe
distraught
face
feels
frustrated
mad
sad

Appears in these collections

How to type 😖

Windows — press Win + . and search “confounded face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “annoyed”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f616 and Enter.
HTML — paste 😖.

How 😖 renders

The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.

😖Apple
😖Segoe
😖Noto
😖System

Frequently asked questions

What does the 😖 confounded face emoji mean?+

😖 is the confounded face emoji, tagged annoyed, confounded and confused. The largest face subgroup, running from mild confusion through to full panic. Most of it is not literal: 😭 is used for laughing and for being overwhelmed at least as much as for crying, and 🥺 pleading face, added in 2018, became a way to ask for things with performed helplessness rather than actual distress.

What is the Unicode code for 😖?+

confounded face is U+1F616. In HTML that is 😖, in CSS \1F616, and in JavaScript \u{1F616}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😖 emoji added?+

confounded face got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😖 confounded face.