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A classic sad face. A yellow face with&nbsp;simple, open eyes and wide, steep frown. May convey such feelings as moderate concern or disappointment and affectionate sadness, as when missing a loved one. Its sentiment is usually more intense than <a href="/slightly-frowning-face/">🙁&nbsp;Slightly Frowning Face</a>, which has a smaller frown.

This smiley predates Unicode emoji support. In its Unicode name of White Frowning Face, white&nbsp;does not refer to skin tone or ethnicity, although&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/frowning-face/">early designs</a>&nbsp;colored the face white.&nbsp;See the glossary for the&nbsp;term&nbsp;<a href="/glossary/#white" title="📖 Glossary">white</a>&nbsp;in Unicode character names.

White Frowning Face

A yellow face with slightly raised eyebrows, a frown, and eyes looking to the side. May convey a variety of negative emotions, including irritation, displeasure, grumpiness, and skepticism, as if giving the <a href="/eyes/">side-eye</a>.

Not to be confused with <a href="/smirking-face/">😏&nbsp;Smirking Face</a>, which features similar eyes but a wry smile.

Unamused Face

A pensive, remorseful face. Saddened by life. Quietly considering where things all went wrong.&nbsp;Depicted as a yellow face with sad, closed eyes, furrowed eyebrows, and a slight, flat mouth.

May convey a variety of sad emotions, including feeling disappointed, hurt, or lonely. Less intense than other sad emojis like <a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face</a> and more introspective.

Microsoft&#39;s design&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/pensive-face/">previously featured</a> a more neutral, bored expression. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/pensive-face/">previously looked</a> more guilty or worried.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/relieved-face/">😌&nbsp;Relieved Face</a>, which has similarly shaped eyes but in a happier expression.

Pensive Face

A yellow face with open eyes, raised or furrowed eyebrows, and a broad frown.&nbsp;May convey a variety of moderately sad or tense emotions, including concern, anxiety, alarm, disappointment, and unhappiness.&nbsp;

Apple&rsquo;s design features the same eye expression as on its <a href="/hushed-face/">😯&nbsp;Hushed Face</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/astonished-face/">😲 &nbsp;Astonished Face</a> or <a href="/dizzy-face/">😵&nbsp;Dizzy Face</a>.&nbsp;

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/worried-face/">previously included</a> sweat droplets coming from its cheeks, a shorthand for anxiety in manga and anime.

Worried Face

A yellow face with simple, open eyes and a slight frown. Often conveys a mild degree of concern, disappointment, or sadness, but usually&nbsp;less intensely&nbsp;than <a href="/frowning-face/">☹️&nbsp;Frowning Face</a>.

<a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/slightly-frowning-face/">Samsung</a> and <a href="/facebook/2.0/slightly-frowning-face/">Facebook</a> previously included eyebrows.

Slightly Frowning Face

A yellow face with small, open eyes and an open frown. Samsung&rsquo;s design shows upper teeth and tongue. Meaning widely varies, but may convey mild sadness, disappointment, concern, and amazement.

An early Microsoft design showed a face with its eyebrows <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/frowning-face-with-open-mouth/">contorted in anger</a>.

Frowning Face with Open Mouth

A face with open eyes and a small, open frown. Its eyebrows are furrowed, with a single bead of cold sweat dripping down, and its forehead is pale blue, as if experiencing a <a href="/cold-face/">cold</a> flash. Samsung&#39;s design shows upper teeth and tongue.

Meaning widely varies, but commonly conveys such feelings as sadness, disappointment, fear, and anxiety. Similar to <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad but Relieved Face</a>, but with a blue head and larger frown.

Not to be confused with <a href="/crying-face/">😢&nbsp;Crying Face</a>, <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪&nbsp;Sleepy Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets. <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/anxious-face-with-sweat/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/anxious-face-with-sweat/">Samsung</a> previously featured smileys that appeared more excited in expression.

Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat

A yellow face with raised eyebrows and a slight frown, shedding a single, blue tear from one eye down its cheek. May convey a moderate degree of sadness or pain, usually less intensely than <a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face</a>.

Not to be confused with <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad but Relieved Face</a>, <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪&nbsp;Sleepy Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/crying-face/">previously featured</a> tears welling up in both eyes.

This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/crying-cat/">😿&nbsp;Crying Face</a>.

Crying Face

A yellow face with an open mouth wailing and streams of heavy tears flowing from closed eyes. May convey inconsolable grief&nbsp;but also other intense feelings, such as uncontrollable laughter, pride or overwhelming joy.

In March 2021,&nbsp;😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face became&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">the most popular emoji on Twitter</a>. It held this position until January 2022, when&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face with Tears of Joy</a> <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/tears-of-joy-just-about-returns-as-twitters-top-emoji/">returned as the top emoji on the platform</a>.

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Loudly Crying Face

A yellow face with a slight frown, furrowed eyebrows, and scrunched eyes, as if holding back tears or exerting great effort. May convey various degrees and tones of frustration, sadness, helplessness, and struggle. Facebook&rsquo;s design features a light-purple forehead.

Persevering Face

A yellow face with a frown and closed, downcast eyes, as if aching with sorrow or pain. May convey a variety of unhappy emotions, including disappointment, grief, stress, regret, and remorse.

Similar to <a href="/pensive-face/">😔&nbsp;Pensive Face</a>, but with a sadder, more hurt expression. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/disappointed-face/">previously featured</a> an expression closer to <a href="/confused-face/">😕&nbsp;Confused Face</a>.

Disappointed Face

A yellow face with closed eyes, frown, and a bead of sweat dripping from its forehead. Usually depicted with a single sweat bead on its right side, though Facebook and WhatsApp include the sweat bead on its left side.

Meaning widely varies, but commonly conveys a moderate degree of sadness, pain, frustration, or disappointment, similar to <a href="/crying-face/">😢&nbsp;Crying Face</a> and <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad But Relieved Face</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/grinning-face-with-sweat/">😅&nbsp;Grinning Face With Sweat</a> or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets.

Google&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-8.0/downcast-face-with-sweat/">previously featured</a> a blue face. Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/downcast-face-with-sweat/">previously depicted</a> multiple beads of sweat from around the smiley&rsquo;s forehead. Earlier designs <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/downcast-face-with-sweat/">from Samsung</a> had more <a href="/pleading-face/">pleading</a> eyes.

Face with Cold Sweat

A yellow face with closed eyes, furrowed brows, and a broad, open frown, as if distraught to the point of giving up. Usually shown with upper teeth and sometimes tongue.

May convey various feelings&nbsp;of frustration, lust, sadness, amusement, and affection.&nbsp;Often playful in tone.

Similar in appearance and meaning to <a href="/tired-face/">😫&nbsp;Tired Face</a>, but with crescent-shaped eyes. Huawei&#39;s design has its <a href="/tongue">tongue</a> hanging out of its mouth. Samsung&rsquo;s design previously featured large eyes half-closed in tiredness.

This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/weary-cat/">🙀&nbsp;Weary Cat Face</a>, though it more closely resembles <a href="/face-screaming-in-fear/">😱&nbsp;Face Screaming in Fear</a>.

Weary Face

A yellow face with scrunched, X-shaped eyes, furrowed eyebrows, and a broad, open frown, as if yawning in exhaustion or groaning in exasperation. Usually shown with upper teeth and sometimes tongue.

While intended to represent tiredness, it commonly conveys various degrees and tones of frustration and sadness as well excitement and affection, as if it just can&rsquo;t handle how great someone or something is.

Similar in appearance and meaning to <a href="/weary-face/">😩 Weary Face</a>, but with scrunched eyes. Not to be confused with <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪 Sleepy Face</a> or <a href="/sleeping-face/">😴 Sleeping Face</a>, which often convey actually being asleep.&nbsp;

Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/tired-face/">previously featured</a> three, vertical, blue lines over its forehead, which can indicate fatigue in manga and anime. A <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/tired-face/">previous</a> Microsoft design was <a href="/yawning-face/">yawning</a>.

Tired Face

An upset person, frowning with dismay. Gender is not specified,&nbsp;but generally shown&nbsp;as a woman.

Previously displayed as a man on <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/person-frowning/">Samsung</a> and <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/person-frowning/">Microsoft</a> platforms.

Person Frowning

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Used by Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac) whenever emojis are displayed. Also used by Telegram messenger.

Default emoji set for Android devices created by Google and used on devices by Google, Xiaomi, Oppo, Huawei, Sony, and many others.

Animated versions of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs, used by Google Messenger.

Custom emoji set used on Samsung phones and tablets.

Glossy,&nbsp;gradient-heavy versions of the Microsoft emoji set. Used within select platforms such as Word and PowerPoint within the Windows 11 23H2 update.

3D animated versions of Microsoft&rsquo;s Fluent emoji set, used Microsoft Teams for PC and Android.

Used across Microsoft PCs. Windows 11 uses the Fluent set. Windows 10&rsquo;s final update was in May 2019.

Used on WhatsApp for Android and PC. WhatsApp on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Used on Twitter / X for PC. Also used by Discord, Roblox, and Mastodon. Twitter / X&nbsp;on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs. Android devices use native emoji design as of early 2023.

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Used on Facebook for Android and PC. Not used across Meta&rsquo;s WhatsApp and Instagram platforms. Facebook on iOS/MacOS uses Apple designs.

Custom emoji set used on select Huawei&nbsp;phones and tablets.

A licensable emoji design set. Previously named EmojiOne.

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An animated subset of the licensable JoyPixels emoji set.

Custom emoji set used on LG devices. Discontinued between 2017 and 2020, replaced by Noto Color Emoji, but then revived in 2021 for LG&rsquo;s final mobile device.

Animated versions of Apple&rsquo;s emoji set, custom-built by the Telegram message platform.

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Highly-detailed emoji set used by Twitter&rsquo;s Statuses feature and within the tweet image editor on Android devices.

Custom emoji set used on the open-source SerenityOS.

A custom emoji design set used by Korean fintech platform Toss.

Used on PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 4 within the device&rsquo;s messaging functionality.

A minimalist, monochrome version of Google&rsquo;s Noto Color Emoji designs.

A open-source emoji design set by the HfG Schw&auml;bisch Gm&uuml;nd (Design University) in Germany.

A licensable emoji design set.

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An open-source emoji design set consisting of user-submitted emoji designs.

Custom emoji set previously used on HTC devices. Discontinued in 2016, replaced by Noto Color Emoji.

Unicode 1.1 were pre-dated emoji inclusion in Unicode by 17 years, and included many characters primarily sourced from the Zapf Dingbats font.

The following characters were added to Unicode in 1993 and many were given emoji presentation status in the years 2010-2015.

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