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U+2639 · WHITE FROWNING FACE

White Frowning Face

  • CodepointU+2639
  • NameWHITE FROWNING FACE
  • Emoji namefrowning face
  • Decimal9785
  • BlockMiscellaneous Symbols (U+2600–U+26FF)
  • Plane0 — Basic Multilingual Plane
  • ScriptCommon
  • CategorySo — Other Symbol
  • Unicode version1.1 (1993)
  • Bidi classON — Other Neutral
  • Combining class0
  • East Asian widthN — Neutral
  • MirroredNo

About this character

U+2639 (☹) is WHITE FROWNING FACE, a symbol in the Miscellaneous Symbols block. Its script is Common: it is shared by many writing systems rather than belonging to one. It was added in Unicode 1.1 (1993).

Its emoji name (CLDR short name) is “frowning face”, in the Smileys & Emotion group, subgroup face-concerned. By default it is shown as a text glyph; follow it with U+FE0F VARIATION SELECTOR-16 to request the colour emoji form (U+2639 U+FE0F), or with U+FE0E VARIATION SELECTOR-15 to force text style.

How to type ☹

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Encodings & escapes

UTF-8 encoder →
UTF-8E2 98 B93 bytes
UTF-1626391 code unit
UTF-32000026394 bytes
HTML decimal☹
HTML hex☹
CSS\2639in content: "…"
JavaScript\u2639
JSON\u2639
Python\u2639
Python\N{WHITE FROWNING FACE}by name
Java / C#\u2639
C / C++\u2639universal character name
Rust / Swift / PHP\u{2639}
Go\u2639
Ruby\u2639
Excel / Sheets=UNICHAR(9785)
URL-encoded%E2%98%B9percent-encoded UTF-8
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Nearby in Miscellaneous Symbols

All in block →
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