π Face with Cold Sweat
Also known as: Hard Work, Sad Sweat Face
Description
A yellow face with closed eyes, frown, and a bead of sweat dripping from its forehead. Usually depicted with a single sweat bead on its right side, though Facebook and WhatsApp include the sweat bead on its left side. Meaning widely varies, but commonly conveys a moderate degree of sadness, pain, frustration, or disappointment, similar to π’ Crying Face and π₯ Sad But Relieved Face. Not to be confused with π Grinning Face With Sweat or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets. Google previously featured a blue face. Microsoft previously depicted multiple beads of sweat from around the smiley’s forehead. Earlier designs from Samsung had more pleading eyes.
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Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :downcast_face_with_sweat: | |
GitHub | :sweat: | |
Slack | :sweat: | |
Discord | :sweat: |
Additional Information
A face with a sad or neutral mouth, withΒ a single drop of sweat. Face With Cold Sweat was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 and added http://emojipedia.org/face-with-cold-sweat/
- Feeling mentally uncomfortable because something is missing or wrong.
- Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness- Christina Rossetti
- Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
- Not happy; sad.
- Experiencing or marked by or causing sadness or sorrow or discontent
- Extremely irritating to the nerves
- Intensely distressing or irritating to the nerves.
- Causing stress; irritating to the nerves.
- Intensely irritating or distressing to the nerves
- Irritating; causing stress.
- Irritating, stressful or bothersome.
- Discouraging, inspiring fear.
- Excrete perspiration through the pores in the skin
- To emit sweat.
- To secrete sweat.
- To emit sweat or perspiration through the skin's pores.
- To cry out with a shrill voice; to utter a sudden, sharp outcry, or shrill, loud cry, as in fright or extreme pain; to shriek; to screech.
- To utter a sudden and loud outcry, as in joy, triumph, or exultation, or to attract attention, to animate soldiers, etc.
- To utter a sudden and loud outcry.
- To speak with a loud, excited voice.
- Utter a sudden loud cry
- To utter in a loud or distinct voice.
- To stress, single out as important
- To stress, single out as important.
- Part of the body at the front of the head
- The face is a central organ of sense and is also very central in the expression of emotion among humans and among numerous other species.
- Faces are the central sense organ complexes, for those animals that have one, normally on the ventral surface of the head.
- The front of the human head from the forehead to the chin and ear to ear
- The front part of the head, featuring the eyes, nose, and mouth and the surrounding area.
- A natural and periodic state of rest during which consciousness of the world is suspended
- A periodic state of physiological rest during which consciousness is suspended and metabolic rate is decreased.
- The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm.
- Sleep is a naturally recurring state of bodily rest involving altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, and inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles.
- State characterized by reduced or absent consciousness
- In animals, sleep is a naturally recurring state characterized by altered consciousness, relatively inhibited sensory activity, and inhibition of nearly all voluntary muscles.
- State of reduced consciousness.