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Meaning & usage
What does the Confused Face emoji mean?
A slanted, uneven mouth showing puzzlement or mild unhappiness.
Mildly puzzled. The uneven mouth reads as uncertainty rather than displeasure, so it suits not understanding something better than disliking it.
How to use 😕 naturally
Not following an explanation, or reacting to a plan you are unsure about.
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 😕
- 2015
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Confused Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. The first release where Unicode versioned the emoji set as a standard in its own right.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
A mouth slanting to one side with open eyes. The tilt is slight and deliberate, enough to signal uncertainty without becoming a frown.
- Today
How its use evolved
Not following an explanation, or reacting to a plan you are unsure about.
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.
Not sure I follow 😕
Says one thing, does another 😕
Was that a yes 😕
When to use it
Using 😕 clearly
Not following an explanation, or reacting to a plan you are unsure about. It lands as confused 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 confused face emoji
What does 😕 mean in a text message?
A slanted, uneven mouth showing puzzlement or mild unhappiness. Mildly puzzled. The uneven mouth reads as uncertainty rather than displeasure, so it suits not understanding something better than disliking it.
Is 😕 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are confused face emoji, 😕 meaning, puzzled emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😕 look different on another device?
U+1F615 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 confused 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 confused face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 😕 as emoji in Emoji 1.0, dated 2015. 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.
Confused Face or Face with Raised Eyebrow?
🤨 is scepticism. 😕 is genuine puzzlement, and it invites an explanation rather than a defence.
Confused Face or Slightly Frowning Face?
🙁 is mildly unhappy about something. 😕 is unsure about it. Confusion against disappointment.
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+1F615 | 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 | \1F615 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F615} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%95 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F615
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- confused face emoji😕 meaningpuzzled emoji
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