Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
😢Crying Face Emoji
Generally, it means someone is feeling sad or upset. It’s a simple way to show you understand their feelings or that you’re feeling down yourself.
The 😢 emoji shows a crying face with tears streaming down.
- Unicode
- U+1F622
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :cry:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #40 most used
01 — Meaning
What does the 😢 Crying Face emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 11 of them.
02 — Platforms
Crying Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F622 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your crying face looks like to the person on the other side.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Crying Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :cry:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F622.
04 — How to type
How to type the 😢 Crying Face emoji
No picker to hand? The crying face can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
05 — Download
Crying Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the crying face as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
WhatsApp
06 — Combinations
Crying Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around crying face for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 😢, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
08 — In conversation
What 😢 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
What 😢 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
Chat apps do not change U+1F622, they change what it looks like and what people take it to mean.
11 — Difference
😢 vs 😭 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Crying Face
Code: U+1F622 · added 2010
Shortcode: :cry:
Generally, it means someone is feeling sad or upset.
Unicode name: Loudly Crying Face
Code: U+1F62D · added 2010
Shortcode: :sob:
It usually means someone is crying or feeling very sad.
12 — History
Where the 😢 Crying Face emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F622 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
😢 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E72E, KDDI au EB69, SoftBank E413.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Crying Face was approved as U+1F622 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 😢 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.
People wrote it as
:'( back when messages were plain text. Most keyboards still convert those automatically.
13 — FAQ