Emoji
(CRYING FACE): meaning and Unicode code
Meaning of the emoji
(CRYING FACE), Unicode code, HTML entity, and usage examples. Copy the symbol with one click.

Information about emoji CRYING FACE
- Unicode Name
- CRYING FACE
- Unicode Codepoint
- U+1F622
- Category
- Smileys & Emotion
- Subcategory
- face-concerned
- Slug
- cry
Meaning and description of emoticon 😢
😢 depicts a yellow face with lowered brows and a single large tear rolling down the cheek. Classified under Smileys & Emotion in Unicode.
😢 conveys tears, hurt, or quiet distress — "it hurts" or "that moved me to tears." It's often paired with 💔 or 🥺, and in messages it appears as "That was really hurtful 😢" and works best when a situation truly stung or upset. In a light context, 😢 can amplify a complaint even where there are no actual tears, working more as a mood than literal suffering.
Usage Examples 😢
| Format | Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Shortcode (Slack) | :cry: | |
| Shortcode (Discord) | :cry: | |
| Shortcode (GitHub) | :cry: | |
| HTML Dec | 😢 | |
| HTML Hex | 😢 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F622"; | |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001F622 | |
| Java, JavaScript & JSON | \uD83D\uDE22 | |
| Perl | \x{1F622} | |
| PHP & Ruby | \u{1F622} | |
| Punycode | xn--d38h | |
| URL Escape Code | %F0%9F%98%A2 | |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | F0 9F 98 A2 |