Loudly crying face Emoji

Smileys

A yellow face with closed eyes, a frowning mouth, and large, thick streams of tears flowing down from the eyes like waterfalls. It depicts a state of extreme emotional distress, uncontrollable sobbing, or overwhelming grief.

Usage Context

Despite its sad appearance, this emoji is frequently used to express intense positive emotions, such as laughing uncontrollably at a joke or being moved to tears by something touching. It is often paired with 😂 to emphasize the feeling of 'dying' from laughter, or used alone to react to disappointing news. It serves as a more dramatic alternative to the simpler 😢.

History

Part of the initial wave of standardized emojis adopted into Unicode 6.0 in 2010, this design grew out of early Japanese 'kaomoji' culture, where text-based emoticons like (T_T) were used to convey deep sadness. Its transition to a graphical icon helped it become one of the most widely used reaction emojis across global social media platforms.

Details

Glyph

😭

Unicode

U+1F62D

Shortcode

:emoji_u1f62d:

HTML Entity

&#xD83D;&#xDE2D;

Specifications

Vendor Google

Category Smileys

Subcategory face-concerned

Unicode Version 6.0

Emoji Version 1.0

License Apache-2.0 / OFL-1.1

Google Noto License

Emoji graphics by Google. © Google Inc. Licensed under Apache License 2.0 and SIL Open Font License 1.1 where applicable.

Noto Color Emoji graphics are copyrighted by Google Inc. and licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. Font files may also be subject to the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.

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