🙃️ Upside-down face emoji
HTML
🙃
Unicode
U+1F643
What is 🙃️ called?
🙃️ is called the Upside-down face emoji.
Also known as the inverted smiley or upside-down smile. It is literally 🙂 Slightly smiling face rotated through 180 degrees, which gives the familiar smile an ironic tone.
What does 🙃️ mean?
The upside-down face emoji expresses irony, playful sarcasm, awkwardness, or the sense that a situation has gone wrong in a ridiculous way. It can make “everything is fine” clearly tongue-in-cheek without spelling out the frustration.
The design is 🙂 Slightly smiling face rotated through 180 degrees, turning an ordinary smile into something ambiguous. 😅 Grinning face with sweat emphasizes nervous relief, while 😬 Grimacing face shows tension more directly.
It is common after inconvenient news, a self-deprecating confession, a dry joke, or a description of emotional chaos.
Other meanings
It can literally mean upside down, inverted, topsy-turvy, or doing a handstand. In emotional messages it may suggest confusion, resignation, suppressed annoyance, or smiling through a bad day.
Example Usage
I brought an umbrella and left it on the bus 🙃
The deadline moved to this afternoon 🙃
More details
Its Unicode code point is U+1F643, and it has been available as an emoji since Emoji 1.0. The visual inversion is literal, but its most common conversational effect comes from making a normal smile look ironic.
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Visual description
A simple yellow smiling face is completely inverted. Its curved mouth sits near the top of the circle, while two open eyes appear below it.
Apart from the rotation, it resembles the slightly smiling face. Platforms vary the mouth curve, eye size, and exact vertical spacing.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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