Unamused Face Emoji
A sidelong, half-lidded look of disapproval — unimpressed, sceptical or quietly annoyed.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Unamused Face emoji mean?
A sidelong, half-lidded look of disapproval — unimpressed, sceptical or quietly annoyed.
Sceptical and unimpressed. It is mild enough for teasing between friends but still clearly negative, so it lands badly as a response to someone being sincere.
How to use 😒 naturally
Reacting to a weak excuse, an obvious lie or a plan you already dislike.
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, Unamused 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
Eyes looking sideways under lowered lids with a flat, slightly curved mouth. The sideways glance is the difference between unimpressed and merely neutral.
- Today
How its use evolved
Reacting to a weak excuse, an obvious lie or a plan you already dislike.
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.
Right, the dog ate it 😒
You said that last week too 😒
Another 'quick favour' 😒
When to use it
Using 😒 clearly
Reacting to a weak excuse, an obvious lie or a plan you already dislike. It lands as unamused face meaning or side eye emoji 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 unamused face emoji
What does 😒 mean in a text message?
A sidelong, half-lidded look of disapproval — unimpressed, sceptical or quietly annoyed. Sceptical and unimpressed. It is mild enough for teasing between friends but still clearly negative, so it lands badly as a response to someone being sincere.
Is 😒 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are unamused face meaning, side eye emoji, annoyed emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😒 look different on another device?
U+1F612 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 unamused 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 unamused 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.
Unamused Face or Face with Rolling Eyes?
🙄 is exasperated and theatrical. 😒 is quieter and more sceptical — closer to doubt than to contempt.
Unamused Face or Neutral Face?
😐 gives nothing away. 😒 clearly disapproves, so it is the riskier reply to something sincere.
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+1F612 | 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 | \1F612 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F612} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%92 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F612
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- unamused face meaningside eye emojiannoyed emoji
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