Angry Face Emoji
A frowning face with lowered brows — annoyed and displeased, but not furious.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Angry Face emoji mean?
A frowning face with lowered brows — annoyed and displeased, but not furious.
Annoyed rather than furious. It is the measured half of the anger pair, which makes it usable in situations where the red face would escalate things.
How to use 😠 naturally
Complaints and irritation where the red face would overstate it.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 😠
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Angry Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A frown under angled brows on a normal yellow face. Keeping the standard colour is what holds it at annoyance instead of the rage of 😡.
- Today
How its use evolved
Complaints and irritation where the red face would overstate it.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 😠 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
They cancelled with no notice 😠
Parked across the drive again 😠
Charged me twice 😠
When to use it
Using 😠 clearly
Complaints and irritation where the red face would overstate it. It lands as angry face emoji or 😠 meaning when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the angry face emoji
What does 😠 mean in a text message?
A frowning face with lowered brows — annoyed and displeased, but not furious. Annoyed rather than furious. It is the measured half of the anger pair, which makes it usable in situations where the red face would escalate things.
Is 😠 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are angry face emoji, 😠 meaning, annoyed emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😠 look different on another device?
U+1F620 identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the angry face emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 😠 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the angry face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 😠 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
Easily confused
😠 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Angry Face or Enraged Face?
😡 is red and furious. 😠 is annoyed and still in control, which makes it usable in situations where the red face would escalate things.
Angry Face or Face with Symbols on Mouth?
🤬 is swearing. 😠 is the same feeling with the words kept in, and the gap between them is roughly one more inconvenience.
For developers
😠 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F620 | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 😠 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 😠 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F620 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F620} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%A0 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F620
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- angry face emoji😠 meaningannoyed emoji
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