There are several emojis that can convey sadness, but each has its own meaning. As a result, even these emojis belong to the same category, but they are used very differently, depending on the feeling you want to convey when faced with a piece of information, whether it's a message or a post on social networks, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, among others. Here, discover the origin, meaning, use and characteristics of the smiley 😢.
The origin of the 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.
😢 Emoji Meanings and Uses
This smiley is often confused with the sad but relieved face emoji 😥. However, the affects transmitted by the two have some differences. If the other can translate a relief after a temporary sadness, the crying face emoji, meanwhile, expresses a feeling of deep sadness.
It is represented by a sad face, expressing the temporary wound, that is to say the pain of an event. This is symbolized by oval-shaped eyes under drooping eyebrows, with a drop of teardrop running down one of the eyes, and a mouth in the shape of a downward curved line. It belongs to the family of emojis expressing annoyance and worry, but it is the one that represents sadness the most, with its equivalent being the emoji crying tears 😭, if the others lean towards it instead. expression of disappointment 😞 or the mixture of sadness and relief 😥.
Here are some examples of inserting this emoji into a sentence:
- He left 😢.
- I lost my dog this morning 😢.
- They stole my necklace, it was a symbolic gift 😢.
- You don't want to talk to me anymore 😢?
The characteristics of the smiley 😢
Discover the characteristics of the crying face emoji 😢 in the following table:
| Version | 1.0 (2015-06-09) |
| Usual name | crying face |
| Category | Smilies and Emotions |
| Sub-category | worried-face |
| Apple designation | crying face |
| code point | U+1F622 Copy |
| Decimal | ALT+128546 |
| unicode | 6.0 (2010-10-11) |
| Key words | Tear-Crying Face |
| Other names | · Upset Emoji;
· Emotional Emoji; · Tearful emoji; · Pained Emoji; · Self-pity emoji; · Emoji whining; · Wistful emoji. |
The smiley 😢 is used to accompany your messages or your comments on the social networks that express your grief over information or content that made you sad.
