Confounded Face

😖 Confounded Face is a yellow-faced emoji with scrunched (x-shaped) eyes and a sarcastic smile shown by a black zig-zag line that resembles a crumpled mouth that holds back tears or quivers in frustration. It is generally used to express disappointment, quiver, frustration, disgust, disbelief, and ashamed.

It is generally used when you are embarrassed or fatally react to something gross and cringy. As mentioned before, if you come across something sad or heartbreaking, you can use this emoji to show that you are holding back your tears.

Don't be confused with a similar-looking smiley face like 😓 Downcast Face With Sweat, 😞 Disappointed Face, 😣 Persevering Face. these emojis are looking the same but have different meanings and use from the 😖 Confounded Face smiley.

The Confounded Face emoji was endorsed in 2010 and added to Unicode 6.0. It was added in the very first version of emoji 1.0 as a concerned face under the Smileys & Emotion category in 2015.

How and when to use the 😖 Confounded Face emoji?

• If someone sends you something that you dislike or disapprove of, you can use this emoji to express your disappointment. “Oh! Are we supposed to work on Sunday this week😖? This is so bad.”
• If something is keeping you under tremendous stress or nervousness. use this emoji. “I will be going on stage for the first time 😖. I am not sure how my performance will be😖.”
• If you are feeling embarrassed after reading or watching something, you can use this emoji to voice your disgust. “I feel so embarrassed when jack laughed loudly in the class 😖!”.
• If you are emotionally tensed, you can use this emoji. “I am not sure I how will face him, coz I rejected his proposal 😖.”
• If you are feeling sorry or bad for someone, you can express this by using the 😖 emoji. “I am so sorry, I don't want to hurt you 😖".