What does 😢 mean?
A single tear: sadness, disappointment or being touched. Quieter than the loud crying of 😭.
Its official Unicode name is CRYING FACE and its CLDR short name is "crying face" (in Hungarian: "síró arc"). It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group and was added in Emoji 0.6 in 2010.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- awful
- cry
- crying
- face
- feels
- miss
- sad
- tear
- triste
- unhappy
In Hungarian: arc, boldogtalan, hiányzik, könnycsepp, sírás, szmájli, szomorúság
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws 😢 in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F622. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- CRYING FACE
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- síró arc
- English name (CLDR)
- crying face
- Emoji version
- Emoji 0.6 (2010)
- Group
- Smileys & Emotion · face concerned
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :cry:
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Frequently asked questions
What does the 😢 emoji mean?
A single tear: sadness, disappointment or being touched. Quieter than the loud crying of 😭.
How do I type the 😢 emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "awful".
When was the 😢 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 0.6 (2010), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.