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😢 Crying Face Emoji

The 😢 Crying Face emoji conveys genuine, quiet sadness, disappointment, or feeling hurt by upsetting news.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Crying Face
Category
Smileys & Emotion
Subcategory
Face Concerned
Unicode
U+1F622
Emoji version
0.6
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The 😢 Crying Face emoji communicates sincere, understated sorrow. Unlike the theatrical wailing of 😭, 😢 represents quiet heartbreak, empathy for someone's pain, or disappointment when plans fall through. It is an appropriate choice for expressing condolences, mild sadness, or feeling let down without sounding overly dramatic.

Tone
SadDisappointedHurtEmpathetic
Quick Meaning

The 😢 Crying Face emoji conveys genuine, quiet sadness, disappointment, or feeling hurt by upsetting news.

Use Cases

How People Use 😢

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Expressing sorrow over cancelled plans or bad news

Expressing sorrow over cancelled plans or bad news.

Offering sympathy to a friend going through a tough time

Offering sympathy to a friend going through a tough time.

Sharing mild personal disappointment

Sharing mild personal disappointment.

Real Messages

😢 Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 😢.

“I'm so sorry to hear about your loss 😢”

“Sad that we couldn't meet up this weekend 😢”

“That movie ending was so melancholy 😢”

“Hate seeing you stressed like this 😢”

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Lookup Data

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Official Name

Crying Face

Subcategory: Face Concerned

Aliases & Common Names

  • tear face
  • sad tear
  • crying eye
  • single tear

Keywords & Search Terms

  • crying face
  • tear
  • sad
  • sorrow
  • hurt
  • unhappy
  • sympathy
  • condolences
  • disappointed
Developer Reference

😢 Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F622
Code points
U+1F622
UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0x98 0xA2
UTF-16
\uD83D\uDE22
HTML decimal entity
😢
HTML hexadecimal entity
😢
JavaScript escape
\u{1F622}
CSS escape
\1F622
Python string
\U0001F622
Variations

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Emoji Styles

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Microsoft Fluent

MIT License
Crying Face emoji in Microsoft Fluent style

Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Crying Face emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Crying Face emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Crying Face emoji in OpenMoji style

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The 😢 Crying Face emoji conveys genuine, quiet sadness, disappointment, or feeling hurt by upsetting news.