🙃️ Upside-down face emoji

The upside-down face emoji means playful sarcasm, irony, awkwardness, or pretending everything is fine when it is not. It is often used when a situation feels silly, uncomfortable, or backwards.

It looks like 🙂 Slightly smiling face turned upside down, which makes the smile feel more ambiguous. The meaning can be light and joking, or it can hint at frustration behind a cheerful tone.

Related emoji include 😬 Grimacing face and 😅 Grinning face with sweat.

Could also be called rotated face, wrong way up face, inverted face, flipped face, topsy-turvy face, upturned face or sarcastic smile emoji.

Other meanings

This emoji can also mean confusion, emotional chaos, dry humor, or a polite reaction to something inconvenient.

Example Usage

It is forecast to rain on my birthday 🙃️

Related emoji

April Fools' Day emojis

• 🤡️ Clown face
• 😂️ Face with tears of joy
• 🃏️ Joker
• 😜️ Winking face with tongue

Confused emojis

• 🤨️ Face with raised eyebrow
• 😐️ Neutral face
• 😶‍🌫️ Face in clouds
• 😕️ Confused face

Crazy emojis

• 🫠️ Melting face
• 🤪️ Zany face
• 🙄️ Face with rolling eyes
• 🫨️ Shaking face

Passive Aggressive emojis

• 🙂️ Slightly smiling face
• 😉️ Winking face

Silly emojis

• 😈️ Smiling face with horns

Visual description

On iOS, this emoji is a round yellow face turned upside down. The small open eyes appear near the bottom, and the closed smile appears near the top.

Because the face is inverted, the smile looks playful, sarcastic, or slightly uneasy. Other platforms may use a similar simple smile with small differences in eye shape.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.