How it works
The eye roll emoticon is Face with rolling eyes, U+1F644, or in plain text (◔.◔): two circles with the upper right quarter black. Both are here, with keyboard eye rolls, a roll in four frames and twelve combos.
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Rolling eyes emoji: copy and paste
Face with rolling eyes came with Emoji 1.0. It is the only emoji CLDR files under eyeroll, and it shares ugh with Unamused face and Pinched fingers.
Which characters turn the eyes up
◔ is Circle with upper right quadrant black, U+25D4: put two around a mouth for (◔.◔). On a keyboard a 9 does the job, its round part at the top: (9_9). For a roll in motion, the four White circle with quadrant characters, U+25F4 to U+25F7, move the marked quarter around the eye: ◴_◴ ◷_◷ ◶_◶ ◵_◵.
- The four frames run clockwise: upper left, upper right, lower right, lower left.
- Pinched fingers is from Emoji 13.0, so an older device shows an empty box.
Questions and answers
How do you make an eyeroll emoticon?
Put two eyes that look up around a mouth, inside parentheses: (◔.◔). The eye is ◔, a circle with its upper right quarter black. No US keyboard has that character, so copy the face here.
How do you do an eye roll emoticon on a keyboard?
Type (9_9): a parenthesis, a nine, an underscore, a nine and a parenthesis. The round part of each 9 sits at the top, like eyes turned up. For a smaller mouth type a period in place of the underscore: (9.9).
What does the rolling eyes emoji mean?
CLDR files Face with rolling eyes under eyeroll, ugh, whatever and shade. Wikipedia describes eye-rolling as briefly turning the eyes upward, often in an arc from one side to the other, to disagree or dismiss.