Loudly crying face

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Shortcode: :sob:
Shortcode: :loudly_crying_face:
Unicode: U+1F62D
HTML: 😭
CSS: \1F62D
JavaScript: "\u{1F62D}"
URL: %F0%9F%98%AD

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What 😭 means

Streams of tears: sobbing. It covers real grief, but it is just as often used for laughing hard, being overwhelmed or gushing over something cute.

Common in replies like “I'm so proud of you 😭” or “this video 😭.” Many younger users prefer it over 😂 for laughter. Context shows whether the sender is heartbroken or delighted.

Facts

Loudly crying face 😭 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face concerned. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :sob: or :loudly_crying_face:. People also look for it with words like “bawling”, “cry”, “crying”, or “face”.