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😔Pensive Face Emoji

The pensive face emoji 😔 carries the codepoint U+1F614 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Smileys & Emotion → Sleepy.

What 😔 pensive face means

Tiredness, relief, and the small hours. 😴 and 🤤 mark sleep, 😌 signals calm after something stressful resolved, and 😪 is the standard before-bed reply. The bubble on 😪 is a manga convention for sleep rather than a tear, which is why it confuses people who read it as crying. 🫩 face with bags under eyes joined in 2024.

Unicode tags this one awful, bored and dejected and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Sleepy.

Shortcodes

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

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+1F614`
HTML hex	`😔`
HTML decimal	`😔`
CSS	`\1F614`
JavaScript	`\u{1F614}`
Python	`\U0001F614`
Java / C#	`\uD83D\uDE14`
Rust	`\u{1f614}`
Swift	`\u{1F614}`
PHP	`\u{1F614}`
URL encoded	`%F0%9F%98%94`
UTF-8 bytes	`F0 9F 98 94`
UTF-16 bytes	`D83D DE14`
Base64	`8J+YlA==`
Decimal	`128532`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

awful
bored
dejected
died
disappointed
face
losing
lost
pensive
sad
sucks

Appears in these collections

How to type 😔

Windows — press Win + . and search “pensive 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 1f614 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 😔 pensive face emoji mean?+

😔 is the pensive face emoji, tagged awful, bored and dejected. Tiredness, relief, and the small hours. 😴 and 🤤 mark sleep, 😌 signals calm after something stressful resolved, and 😪 is the standard before-bed reply. The bubble on 😪 is a manga convention for sleep rather than a tear, which is why it confuses people who read it as crying. 🫩 face with bags under eyes joined in 2024.

What is the Unicode code for 😔?+

pensive face is U+1F614. In HTML that is 😔, in CSS \1F614, and in JavaScript \u{1F614}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the 😔 emoji added?+

pensive 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 😔 pensive face.