U+1F627 "😧" Anguished Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
😧
U+1F627 "😧" Anguished Face is a specific emoticon in the Emoticons block, depicting a yellow face with a wide, open mouth, furrowed brows, and a slight grimace, designed to convey intense distress, pain, or overwhelming worry. Officially named "ANGUISHED FACE" and added to Unicode Standard in 2010 as part of Unicode 6.0, it is commonly used in digital communication to express severe emotional suffering, anxiety, or shock, distinguishing itself from similar sorrowful faces by its more dramatic, pained expression. Its presence in the standard underscores how visual symbols evolved to capture nuanced human emotions across text based platforms.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F627 |
| Version Added | 6.1 |
| Name | Anguished Face |
| Block | Emoticons |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 😧 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 😧 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0xA7 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83D 0xDE27 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F627 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83d\ude27 |