What ๐ means
A line chart going down. It means decline, losses, and things getting worse.
People use it for falling stocks and bad numbers, and jokingly for anything sliding: โmy motivation ๐.โ It pairs with ๐ฉ or ๐ for a fail. In work chat it can flag a drop in metrics.
Facts
Chart decreasing ๐ is an emoji in the objects category, under office. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :chart_with_downwards_trend: or :chart_decreasing:. People also look for it with words like โchartโ, โdataโ, โdecreasingโ, or โdownโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
objects ยท Unicode 6.0