U+2639 "☹" White Frowning Face Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
☹
U+2639 "☹" White Frowning Face is a graphical symbol depicting a sad or displeased face with downturned eyes and a curved frown, originally introduced in Unicode 1.1 as part of the Miscellaneous Symbols block. It is often used in digital communication to convey unhappiness, disappointment, or sympathy, serving as a counterpoint to the more common smiling faces. While its design is standardized across platforms, the exact rendering can vary slightly by font and operating system, with some versions showing a hollow white face on a transparent or colored background. This character has historical roots in early computer text-based emoticons and remains a simple yet effective way to express negative emotions in plain text environments.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+2639 |
| Version Added | 1.1 |
| Name | White Frowning Face |
| Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | ☹ |
| HTML Hex Encoding | ☹ |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xE2 0x98 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0x2639 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x00002639 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \u2639 |