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😦Frowning Face With Open Mouth Emoji
The frowning face with open mouth emoji 😦 carries the codepoint U+1F626 and has been in the standard since Emoji 1.0 (2015). It belongs to Smileys & Emotion → Concerned.
What 😦 frowning face with open mouth 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 caught, face and frown 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+1F626 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 😦 | |
| HTML decimal | 😦 | |
| CSS | \1F626 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F626} | |
| Python | \U0001F626 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE26 | |
| Rust | \u{1f626} | |
| Swift | \u{1F626} | |
| PHP | \u{1F626} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%98%A6 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 98 A6 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE26 | |
| Base64 | 8J+Ypg== | |
| Decimal | 128550 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 1.0 (2015) | |
Keywords
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How to type 😦
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “frowning face with open mouth”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “caught”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f626and 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 😦 frowning face with open mouth emoji mean?+
😦 is the frowning face with open mouth emoji, tagged caught, face and frown. 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 😦?+
frowning face with open mouth is U+1F626. In HTML that is 😦, in CSS \1F626, and in JavaScript \u{1F626}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 😦 emoji added?+
frowning face with open mouth got its emoji presentation in Emoji 1.0 (2015). 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.
Related emojis
More emojis from Concerned in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Emoji 1.0 (2015)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😦 frowning face with open mouth.