🙄 meaning at a glance
- Plain meaning: Annoyance, disbelief, impatience, boredom, or dismissive sarcasm.
- Usual tone: Dismissive · Irritated
- Use with care: Often reads as disrespectful in professional or conflict-heavy exchanges.
- Technical type: Single-Code-Point Emoji from Emoji 1.0
What does 🙄 mean in messages?
Annoyance, disbelief, impatience, boredom, or dismissive sarcasm.
Use 🙄 for emotional tone, reactions, and conversational nuance. Unicode calls it “face with rolling eyes.” That name is a safe, neutral label when the social meaning is not clear.
For a wider view, browse smileys & emotion emoji, use the emoji meaning finder, or read the emoji meanings in context guide.
Example messages with 🙄
Unicode construction and code points
This copyable emoji is a single-code-point emoji. It uses 1 core Unicode code point: U+1F644 face with rolling eyes.
U+1F644face with rolling eyesVersion and platform support
The face with rolling eyes emoji was introduced in Emoji 1.0 and is classified in the face neutral skeptical subgroup. This emoji has broad support on modern platforms, but its artwork can still differ substantially between vendors.
Names, keywords, and classification
The standardized name is “face with rolling eyes.” Search terms indexed for this entry include eyes, face, rolling, with. It belongs to Smileys & Emotion and the face neutral skeptical subgroup. These labels help identify and find the character; they do not prove a sender’s intended tone.
Accessibility and clear wording
For alt text, start with “face with rolling eyes.” Use clearer words when the emoji is only decoration, a metaphor, or slang.
Do not use this emoji as the only carrier of an emergency, deadline, consent decision, medical instruction, or other high-stakes message. The character is standardized, but Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, and social platforms supply different artwork.