🙁 Slightly frowning face
🙁 Emoji meaning
Oh no, I'm sorry about that! Disappointment, sympathy, gentle criticism.
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🙁 Meaning
“I'm sorry to hear that“ or “I'm a little annoyed by what you're saying“. With open eyes and a slightly furrowed brow 🙁 it expresses slight dissatisfaction, concern, disappointment or sadness, but usually less intense than the frown ☹. It can also signal rejection or anger when someone is surprised or frightened. In communication, it can be used to convey empathy or sympathy, or a gentle form of criticism or disappointment. You can use this emoji to convey such feelings without being too negative or hurtful, and it helps keep the conversation atmosphere from becoming too tense.
Examples
- Are you okay? 🙁
- Oh no, that's too bad! 🙁
- Today just wasn't a good day. 🙁
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Commonly confused with
Intensity Variant
Slightly frowning vs frowning face; both show mild sadness or disappointment.
Same Emotion
Slightly frowning vs pensive face; both gentle sadness or disappointment.
Emoji History
Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexiconFirst included
The emoji “Slightly frowning face” was approved as part of Unicode 8.0 in 2015 and added to Emoji 1.0 .
In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 5.0 and Unicode 10.0 in 2017 there was 1 change.
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In the release of Emoji 3.0 and Unicode 9.0 in 2016 there was 1 change.
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Derek Use this when feeling a bit sadder than just bored or slightly disappointed. The bigger eyes convey being 'on the edge of crying,' similar to these 🥺.
Nina Used to express displeasure about something or to show sadness.