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😞Disappointed Face Emoji

😞 is the disappointed face emoji, U+1F61E, one of 27 in the Concerned set. It arrived with Unicode 6.0 (2010) and is commonly used for awful, blame and dejected.

What 😞 disappointed 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 awful, blame and dejected and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Concerned.

Shortcodes

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

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F61E`
HTML hex	`😞`
HTML decimal	`😞`
CSS	`\1F61E`
JavaScript	`\u{1F61E}`
Python	`\U0001F61E`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE1E`
Rust	`\u{1f61e}`
Swift	`\u{1F61E}`
PHP	`\u{1F61E}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%9E`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 9E`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE1E`
Base64	`8J+Yng==`
Decimal	`128542`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

awful
blame
dejected
disappointed
face
fail
losing
sad
unhappy

Appears in these collections

How to type 😞

Windows — press Win + . and search “disappointed face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “awful”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 1f61e 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 😞 disappointed face emoji mean?+

😞 is the disappointed face emoji, tagged awful, blame and dejected. 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 😞?+

disappointed face is U+1F61E. In HTML that is 😞, in CSS \1F61E, and in JavaScript \u{1F61E}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😞 emoji added?+

disappointed 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 😞 disappointed face.