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Frowning Face emoji

Type :white_frowning_face: · #94 most-used emoji · Smileys & emotion

Unicode name Frowning Face · added in Emoji 0.7, 2014

What ☹️ means

The classic turned-down frown: plainly sad, no theatrics. Rarer than 😞, and slightly more formal somehow.

How to type ☹️ without a picker

With Emoji Anywhere installed, type :whit in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick ☹️ from the suggestion that appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.

Shortcodes

:white_frowning_face:

Emoticon trigger

Typing :( followed by a space becomes ☹️ automatically.

☹️ in HTML, CSS and code

Frowning Face is a sequence of 2 codepoints, which is why pasting only the first one renders something else. Use the whole thing.

Unicode
U+2639 U+FE0F
HTML
☹️
JavaScript
'\u{2639}\u{FE0F}'
CSS content
"\2639 \FE0F"
Python
'\u2639\uFE0F'
URL-encoded
%E2%98%B9%EF%B8%8F

Related emojis

All smileys & emotion shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .

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You type

:whit
☹️ :white_frowning_face:
Enter

You get

☹️
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