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😣 Persevering Face
Also known as: Helpless Face, Scrunched Eyes
Unicode: U+1F623
Description
A yellow face with a slight frown, furrowed eyebrows, and scrunched eyes, as if holding back tears or exerting great effort. May convey various degrees and tones of frustration, sadness, helplessness, and struggle. Facebook’s design features a light-purple forehead.
Image Variants

3D
Color
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Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
faceperseverepersevering face
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :persevering_face: | |
GitHub | :persevere: | |
Slack | :persevere: | |
Discord | :persevere: |
Additional Information
Category:Emoticons -> Faces
Definition:
Face with scrunched up and closed eyes, frowning. Used to show helplessness in a situation. May be on the verge of tears. Persevering Face w http://emojipedia.org/persevering-face/
Adjectives:
- Feeling mentally uncomfortable because something is missing or wrong.
- Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness- Christina Rossetti
- Feeling sorrow; sorrowful, mournful.
Verbs:
- Be persistent, refuse to stop
- 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.
- Make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip
- Become angry
- To become angry.
- To become enraged, angry, or irritated.
- To look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval.
Nouns:
- Wrinkling of the brows or face.
- A frown is a facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration.
- A facial expression of dislike or displeasure
- The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.
- A facial expression in which the eyebrows are brought together, and the forehead is wrinkled, usually indicating displeasure, sadness or worry, or less often confusion or concentration.
- 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.
- Unexpected result in competition
- An improbable and unexpected victory