About Frowning Face
Frowning Face is the Unicode character ☹️ at codepoint U+2639 in the Miscellaneous Symbols block of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).
Technical Reference
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How to Use Frowning Face
To use the Frowning Face symbol (☹️) in HTML, insert the
entity ☹️ directly into your markup.
In CSS pseudo-elements use content: '\2639';.
In JavaScript and TypeScript the escape '\u2639' evaluates to ☹️. In Python source, write '\u2639'.
The character encodes to E2 98 B9 as UTF-8 bytes and 2639 as UTF-16 code units. Its decimal codepoint is 9785.
This is a fully-qualified emoji and should render with colour on iOS, Android, Windows and macOS. Appearance may vary between platforms, but the underlying codepoint is identical everywhere.