Pensive face

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Shortcode
:pensive:
Shortcode
:pensive_face:
Unicode
U+1F614
HTML
😔
CSS
\1F614
JavaScript
"\u{1F614}"
URL
%F0%9F%98%94

awfulboreddejecteddieddisappointedfacelosinglostpensivesadsucks

What ๐Ÿ˜” means

Downcast and quietly sad. It shows regret, disappointment or reflection more than tears.

Sent for small letdowns, missing someone, or feeling guilty. Online it also shows up in mock-serious jokes, as in โ€œno one appreciates my genius ๐Ÿ˜”,โ€ where the sadness is part of the bit.

Facts

Pensive face ๐Ÿ˜” is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face sleepy. 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 :pensive: or :pensive_face:. People also look for it with words like โ€œawfulโ€, โ€œboredโ€, โ€œdejectedโ€, or โ€œdiedโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. pensive face, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. pensive face, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. pensive face, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  4. pensive face, Google (Noto) design from 20262026

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. pensive face, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014
  2. pensive face, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20162016

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

smileys & emotion ยท Unicode 6.0