crying face

A crying face with a single tear

Code points: U+1F622
Browse by category: Smileys & Emotion

Meaning

A face with a single tear. Quiet sadness, disappointment, or being moved.

Crying face — Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

In conversation

Softer than 😭 — a small disappointment (plans canceled), sympathy ('that's so sad'), or being touched by something beautiful.

Tone

Quiet and heartfelt.

Common uses

expressing sympathy
small disappointments
being moved by a story
soft goodbyes

Watch out

It's mild — for intense grief or loss, 😭 or words are clearer.

Examples

aww that's so sad 😢
we had to cancel 😢
that story got me 😢
take care 😢

Also known as

crying facesingle tearsad face

Similar — Smileys & Emotion

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Used in combos

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heartbroken and crying

blue tears

hug through tears

crying with thoughts of you

an ocean of tears

melting in tears — missing you badly

tears and a rose — mourning

dove and tears — farewell

Related collections

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Emoji names around the world

English: crying faceالعربية وجه يبكي español cara llorando português rosto chorando हिन्दी रोता चेहरा Indonesia wajah menangis

Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.

Related kaomoji

crying kaomoji — tears streaming

Quick facts

Code points: U+1F622
Unicode name: crying face
Category: Smileys & EmotionConcerned faces
Unicode: 6.0 · 2010Emoji 0.6Unicode history
Keywords: awful cry crying face feels miss sad tear triste unhappy emoji meaning mean

Developer

Single code point

Unicode data

Code pointsU+1F622

Unicode namecrying face

UTF-8F0 9F 98 A2

Shortcodes

Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack):crying_face:

HTML & CSS

HTML (hex)😢

HTML (decimal)😢

CSS\1F622

Languages

JavaScript\u{1F622}

Python\U0001F622

Perl\x{1F622}

PHP / Ruby\u{1F622}

Encodings

Punycodexn--d38h

URL escape code%F0%9F%98%A2

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Frequently asked

What does 😢 crying face mean?