Weary Face Emoji
An upturned open mouth and closed eyes: worn out, exasperated or dramatically fed up.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Weary Face emoji mean?
An upturned open mouth and closed eyes: worn out, exasperated or dramatically fed up.
Dramatically worn out. It is nearly always comic exaggeration about something small, and it also carries a suggestive reading in some contexts.
How to use 😩 naturally
Long days, minor complaints and comic despair about something small.
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, Weary 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 screwed shut and a wide open mouth, the same shape as the laughing face without the tears. That similarity is why it swings between despair and comedy.
- Today
How its use evolved
Long days, minor complaints and comic despair about something small.
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.
Third meeting about the meeting 😩
Printer again 😩
Nine hours and no lunch 😩
When to use it
Using 😩 clearly
Long days, minor complaints and comic despair about something small. It lands as weary 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 weary face emoji
What does 😩 mean in a text message?
An upturned open mouth and closed eyes: worn out, exasperated or dramatically fed up. Dramatically worn out. It is nearly always comic exaggeration about something small, and it also carries a suggestive reading in some contexts.
Is 😩 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are weary face emoji, 😩 meaning, tired face emoji, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😩 look different on another device?
U+1F629 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 weary 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 weary 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.
Weary Face or Yawning Face?
🥱 is literally tired. 😩 is worn down by a situation, and is usually comic exaggeration about something small.
Weary Face or Sleepy Face?
😪 is about needing sleep. 😩 is about having had enough, which is a different kind of exhaustion.
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+1F629 | 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 | \1F629 | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F629} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%A9 | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
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Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F629
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- weary face emoji😩 meaningtired face emoji
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