Disappointed, with a drop of sweat on the brow. It mixes sadness with relief, as in โthat hurt, but it could have been worse.โ
Used for near misses and letdowns that ended okay.
Many people read the sweat drop as a tear and use it for plain sadness, so it often stands in for ๐ข.
Facts
Sad but relieved face ๐ฅ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face concerned. 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 :disappointed_relieved: or :sad_but_relieved_face:. People also look for it with words like โanxiousโ, โcallโ, โcloseโ, or โcomplicatedโ.
Timeline
- 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)
Design history
Twemoji (X, Discord)
2014
2016
Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.
smileys & emotion ยท Unicode 6.0