😭 Meaning: What does the crying face emoji mean?

When you see certain emojis, you immediately understand the affect a person wishes to express with their message or comment on social networks. Indeed, laughter, anxiety, fear, tears, love, anger, frustration, determination - everything can be translated by a smiley.

In this article, we'll give you all the meanings of the crying emoji 😭its origin and uses in a sentence, as well as its characteristics.

😭 Meaning and uses of the crying emoji

Emoji crying face, that's what we call this emoji 😭. This name is obvious when you see its representation, a particularly sad face, eyes closed pouring out a torrent of tears, mouth open (gaping on other chat platforms).

• This emoji conveys the expression of a great sadnessa pain or a malaisealthough sometimes it can also translate the ggreat joy.
• It expresses disappointment, the desolation, the dismay, the sense of injustice and the moral injury.
• Sometimes it can also echo the imploring face emoji 🥺 when used to ask someone for help by whining.

You can use this emoji in the same way as the crying face emoji 😢, however, this is a more exacerbated version of the latter.

Here are some examples of the most common uses of the crying face emoji in a sentence:

1. Why didn't you come 😭?
2. I don't want to talk about it anymore, it hurts too much 😭.
3. He crossed the road at the wrong time. Poor animal 😭.
4. Thank you, I don't know how to thank you 😭.
5. Please do it for me 😭.

The origin of this smiley

This emoji is from a 2007 and 2009 proposal, the details of which are presented below:

Emoji Proposition 1

• Number : L2/07-257
• Last name : Working Draft Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols (Associated tables in ZIP file)
• Proposed by : Markus Scherer, Kat Momoi, Mark Davis,
• Year of proposal: 2007
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.257, 2007 HTML: EMOJI WD / No.257, 2007 ZIP: EMOJI WD TABLE

Emoji Proposition 2

• Number : L2/09-026
• Last name : Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
• Proposed by : Kat Momoi, Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, Yasuo Kida, Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.), Darick Tong (Google Inc.)
• Year of proposal: 2009
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.026, 2009 PDF: R EMOJI PROPOSED / No.026, 2009 PDF: EMOJI PROPOSED

Proposal L2/07‑257(2007), L2/09‑026(2009) was approved by the Unicode Consortium and in 2015-06-02 it was released as Emoji version 1.0.

Characteristics of the tearful smiley

In this table we have summarized the characteristics of the 😭 emoji:

Now you know all about using the 😭 emoji, don't hesitate to insert it into your exchanges on social networking platforms to express your sorrow, or your great joy.