☹️Frowning Face Emoji

☹️ is the frowning face emoji, U+2639 U+FE0F, one of 27 in the Concerned set. It arrived with Unicode 7.0 (2014) and is commonly used for face, frown and frowning.

What ☹️ frowning 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 face, frown and frowning and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Concerned.

Copy variants

frowning face carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

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

How ☹️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

☹U+2639frowning face
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+2639 U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`☹️`
HTML decimal	`☹️`
CSS	`\2639\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{2639}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U00002639\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u2639\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{2639}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{2639}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{2639}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%98%B9%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 98 B9 EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`2639 FE0F`
Base64	`4pi577iP`
Decimal	`9785 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 7.0 (2014)

Keywords

Appears in these collections

How to type ☹️

Windows — press Win + . and search “frowning face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “face”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 2639 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 ☹️ frowning face emoji mean?+

☹️ is the frowning face emoji, tagged face, frown and frowning. 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 is U+2639 U+FE0F. In HTML that is ☹️, in CSS \2639\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{2639}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ☹️ emoji added?+

frowning face got its emoji presentation in Unicode 7.0 (2014). 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 7.0 (2014)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ☹️ frowning face.