Frowning face with open mouth

A frown with an open mouth: dismay, as in “oh no.”

Sent when news is surprising and unwelcome, such as a cancelled event or a friend's bad luck. It is shock tinged with disappointment, more dismayed than 😮 and less horrified than 😧.

Facts

Frowning face with open mouth 😦 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face concerned. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :frowning: or :frowning_face_with_open_mouth:. People also look for it with words like “caught”, “face”, “frown”, or “frowning”.

Timeline

1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion · Emoji 1.0