U+1F62D

😭 Loudly crying face

bawling cry crying face loudly sad sob tear tears unhappy

Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subcategory: Concerned Faces
Shortcode
Unicode version: 6.0 (2010)
Emoji version: 0.6 (2010)
Status: fully-qualified

What the 😭 emoji means

A face crying streams of tears. It covers real distress, but far more often it is affectionate overwhelm — something so cute, so funny or so touching that words fail.

Tone comes entirely from context: the same emoji fits a breakup and a puppy photo. Repeating it reads as louder, not sadder.

Chat examples

Will your readers see 😭

The symbol predates 2018, so every system in use today draws it. Safe for an email, a heading or a signature.

Apple always there
Google always there
Microsoft always there
Samsung always there

Checked against release descriptions on August 31, 2026. When new emoji reach devices.

Where the 😭 emoji is used

The 😭 smiley copies in one tap and pastes into a chat as text, not as a picture: it is a Unicode symbol, so it works the same in WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord and in a post caption. Every platform draws emoji its own way — below you can see how loudly crying face is drawn in the open Noto, OpenMoji and Twemoji sets.

How the smiley looks on different platforms

Image size

😭 Your deviceNative system font
Noto Color Emoji Apache License 2.0 💾 SVG
OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0 💾 SVG
Twemoji CC BY 4.0 💾 SVG

Only openly licensed emoji sets are shown. Artwork from Apple, Samsung and other closed platforms is not reproduced. Emoji fonts and image sets.

Emoji codes for developers

Name in other languages

English	loudly crying face
Русский	слезы рекой
Deutsch	heulendes Gesicht
Español	cara llorando fuerte
Français	visage qui pleure à chaudes larmes
Polski	głośno płacząca twarz
Dansk	stortudende ansigt
Українська	обличчя, що гучно ридає
Português	rosto chorando aos berros

Unicode CLDR 48

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