U+1F629 · emoji since 2010
The weary face is dramatic exhaustion: eyes squeezed shut, mouth open in a groan. It reacts to long days, longer queues, and anything that makes you go ughhh.
It also flipped into a compliment, expressing that something is so good it hurts, like fresh bread or a perfect song bridge. Agony and ecstasy, one face.
In texting, 😩 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 😩 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Weary Face emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the weary face emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 😩 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
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