Loudly Crying Face Emoji
Overwhelming emotion — sadness, but just as often joy or laughter.
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Meaning & usage
What does the Loudly Crying Face emoji mean?
Overwhelming emotion — sadness, but just as often joy or laughter.
Emotionally overwhelmed rather than simply sad. Online it can represent grief, joy, cuteness or laughter, so the surrounding words determine the direction.
How to use 😭 naturally
Online it usually means 'this destroyed me', good or bad.
Face emoji usually carry more tone than literal information. Read them alongside the words, the relationship between the people, and whether the conversation is playful, formal or tense.
From standard to slang
The history of 😭
- 2010
First defined as emoji
According to Unicode’s Emoji Versions data, Loudly Crying Face was first defined as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. That label is retrospective: Unicode applied it later to the early mobile core it inherited from the Japanese carriers.
- Before the keyboard
Its visual roots
Tears streaming from both eyes in visible jets, drawn much wider than the tears of joy. The open, downturned mouth is the only reliable way to tell the two apart at small sizes.
- Today
How its use evolved
Online it usually means 'this destroyed me', good or bad.
Dates follow Unicode’s official Emoji Versions chart. Versions before Emoji 1.0 are labelled retrospectively. See the history of emoji.
In conversation
Examples of 😭 in messages
These examples show the emoji in complete messages, where the words make its intended tone easier to read.
That ending was beautiful 😭
They grew up so fast 😭
This video has me crying with laughter 😭
When to use it
Using 😭 clearly
Online it usually means 'this destroyed me', good or bad. It lands as sob or cry when the rest of the message supports that reading, and it is the surrounding words that do the deciding — so in a sensitive, professional or cross-cultural conversation, say the thing outright as well.
Common questions
About the loudly crying face emoji
What does 😭 mean in a text message?
Overwhelming emotion — sadness, but just as often joy or laughter. Emotionally overwhelmed rather than simply sad. Online it can represent grief, joy, cuteness or laughter, so the surrounding words determine the direction.
Is 😭 always positive?
Not always. Its usual readings are sob, cry, sad, and irony or the relationship between the people can flip any of them.
Why does 😭 look different on another device?
U+1F62D identifies the emoji; the picture is a font, drawn separately by Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. Only the artwork changes, never the character.
How do I copy and paste the loudly crying face emoji?
Use the copy button at the top of this page. 😭 is a character, not an image, so it pastes into messages, captions and filenames as ordinary text.
When was the loudly crying face emoji introduced?
Unicode’s Emoji Versions data first records 😭 as emoji in Emoji 0.6, dated 2010. Early emoji version numbers can be retrospective, so this date describes its place in the standardised emoji set rather than the first-ever appearance of the underlying symbol.
Easily confused
😭 compared with similar emoji
These sit close enough in meaning that people reach for the wrong one. Here is what actually separates them.
Loudly Crying Face or Face with Tears of Joy?
😂 is unambiguously funny. 😭 needs the surrounding words, because it covers laughing, crying and being moved.
Loudly Crying Face or Pleading Face?
🥺 asks for something; 😭 reacts to something. One is a request, the other is a response.
For developers
😭 in code
Every value below is generated from the character itself, so it stays correct even where a file encoding cannot hold the emoji directly.
| Format | Value | When to use it | Copy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F62D | The standard reference. Use it to search a character map or a spec. | |
| HTML (hex) | 😭 | For HTML and XML. Safe in files that are not saved as UTF-8. | |
| HTML (decimal) | 😭 | The same reference in decimal. Both render identically. | |
| CSS | \1F62D | For the content property. Keep the quotes around the whole value. | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F62D} | A string-literal escape. Needs the u flag inside a regular expression. | |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%98%AD | Percent-encoded UTF-8, for query strings and API requests. |
Reference card
Emoji details
- Unicode
- U+1F62D
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Also known as
- sobcrysademotional
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