crying face 😢 Meaning, Copy & Platform Appearance
Copy & Paste crying face
Grab the crying face 😢 code by clicking above. Once copied, you can paste it anywhere on the web.
What does 😢 crying face Mean?
😢 is the sincere sad face: one tear, mouth turned down, no theatrics. It's for real disappointment and for sympathy — "my flight got cancelled 😢", "so sorry about your cat 😢". The important contrast is with 😭, which has drifted so far into laughter that sending it for actual grief can confuse a younger reader; 😢 has kept its original meaning intact.
- 💡General Use: crying face
- 📱Social Media: Instagram, TikTok, X
Cultural Meaning & Social Media Tips
Because it's unambiguous, 😢 is the default condolence emoji in family group chats on WhatsApp, where a message often gets a row of them instead of a written reply. Facebook's separate "Sad" reaction uses the same visual language and trained a whole generation to read a single tear as respectful acknowledgement. Where it goes wrong is passive-aggression: appended to a request ("you didn't reply 😢") it stops being sadness and becomes pressure.
How 😢 Looks on Different Platforms
Emoji designs vary slightly between systems. Here is how the crying face emoji is rendered on major platforms like Apple, Google, and WhatsApp.
*Images come from open-licensed emoji sets (Twemoji CC BY 4.0, Noto Apache 2.0, OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0). Apple and WhatsApp sets are proprietary and cannot be hosted; the "Your Device" card shows your own OS emoji font — on iPhone/Mac that is the Apple design. Click any card to copy the emoji.
When to Use crying face?
Social Media
Just posted a new photo! 😢
Messaging
Hey, check this out 😢
Reaction
Wow, that's amazing! 😢
Status
Feeling 😢 today
How to Type crying face on Keyboard?
Windows 10/11 Shortcut
- Windows Key
- . (period)
- Type "crying face"
- Select 😢
Mac (Macbook) Shortcut
- Control + Command + Space
- Search "crying face"
- Select 😢
crying face HTML & CSS Codes
| Property | Value / Code | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Name | crying face | |
| Unicode Code | U+1F622 | |
| HTML Entity | 😢 | |
| HTML Hex | 😢 | |
| CSS Content | \01F622 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F622} | |
| Shortcode (Discord, Slack, GitHub) | :cry: | |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 0.6 | |
| Year Added | 2010 | |
| Skin Tone Support | No |
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Graphics come from open-licensed sets: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0, Twitter/X), Noto Color Emoji (Apache 2.0, Google) and OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0). Free to use with attribution.
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