☹️ Frowning face emoji

A face with a pronounced frown, expressing sadness, disappointment, or unhappiness. This emoji conveys clear negative emotions, being upset, or feeling down about something.

Often used when sad, disappointed, or expressing unhappiness about a situation. Related to 🙁 Slightly frowning face for mild sadness and 😞 Disappointed face for disappointment.

Could also be called Sad face, disappointed face, unhappy face, upset face or down face emoji.

Other meanings

Sadness, disappointment, unhappiness, or being upset. Can represent feeling down, depressed, or dissatisfied with something.

Example Usage

The concert got canceled ☹️

Related emoji

Sad emojis

• 🥲️ Smiling face with tear
• 😕️ Confused face
• 🫤️ Face with diagonal mouth
• 😟️ Worried face

Sad emojis

• 🙁️ Slightly frowning face
• 🥺️ Pleading face
• 🥹️ Face holding back tears

Visual description

Often shown as a round, yellow face with a clear downward frown, indicating sadness or disappointment.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.