Crying face emoji 😢
Emoji 0.6 (2010) · U+1F622
What 😢 means
Crying face 😢 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: awful, cry, crying, face, feels, miss, sad, tear, triste, unhappy.
Those words also drive emoji search: try awful or cry on your phone to find 😢.
On the emoji keyboard, 😢 sits with the worried and sad faces (27 emoji) inside smileys & emotion, which has 172 emoji, for example 😭 😱 😖 😣.
Will 😢 show on my friend's phone?
😢 has been around since the very first emoji set (Emoji 0.6, 2010), so every device you can think of shows it.
How to type 😢
To find 😢 quickly, type crying face into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type crying face.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type crying face in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type crying face.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 😢 as one code point, U+1F622: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F622 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 😢 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 😢 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F622"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F622} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%98%A2 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 98 A2 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 😢 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | crying face |
| Português | rosto chorando |
| Español | cara llorando |
| Italiano | faccina che piange |
| Français | visage qui pleure |
| Deutsch | weinendes Gesicht |
| Türkçe | ağlayan yüz |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wajah menangis |
| Polski | płacząca twarz |
| Русский | плачет |
| 日本語 | 泣き顔 |
| 한국어 | 우는 얼굴 |
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All smileys & emotion emoji →Questions people ask
What does the crying face emoji mean?
Unicode calls 😢 "crying face" and links it with awful, cry, crying, face. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the worried and sad faces subgroup of smileys & emotion.
When was the crying face emoji added?
It is one of the very first emoji, part of Emoji 0.6 from 2010, so it works on any phone.
How do I type the crying face emoji?
To find 😢 quickly, type crying face into the emoji search.