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Sad emoji run from a mild frown 🙁 to full sobbing 😭, and picking the right one changes how a message lands. Below are 144 sad and crying emoji, text faces and combos to copy, ordered roughly by how sad they sound, with the official name of each face so you know what the other person’s phone will show.
Last updated: 24 September 2026 · COOLMOJI Editorial Team · names and code points from the Unicode emoji list
Sad emoji from a little down to sobbing
The fastest way to choose is by intensity. The table goes from “slightly disappointed” at the top to “crying hard” at the bottom; tap any face in the table to copy it.
| Emoji | Official name | Code point | What it usually says |
|---|---|---|---|
🙁 |
Slightly frowning face | U+1F641 | Mild letdown: “aw, that’s a shame” |
☹️ |
Frowning face | U+2639 | Clearly unhappy, a bit old-fashioned in tone |
😔 |
Pensive face | U+1F614 | Quietly sad, regretful or thoughtful |
😞 |
Disappointed face | U+1F61E | Let down by a result or a person |
🥺 |
Pleading face | U+1F97A | Hurt, or soft and asking for sympathy |
🥹 |
Face holding back tears | U+1F979 | Almost crying — from sadness or from being touched |
😥 |
Sad but relieved face | U+1F625 | Upset, but it could have been worse |
😢 |
Crying face | U+1F622 | A single tear: genuinely sad |
😭 |
Loudly crying face | U+1F62D | Sobbing — or, very often, laughing or overwhelmed |
😿 |
Crying cat | U+1F63F | Sad, but softer and cuter |
💔 |
Broken heart | U+1F494 | Heartbreak, or “that hurts” in a joking way |
❤️🩹 |
Mending heart | U+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79 | Healing after something sad |
Two faces in the table are newer than the rest: 🥺 arrived in Emoji 11.0 (2018) and 🥹 in Emoji 14.0 (2021), so on an old phone they can show as an empty box. The mending heart is not one character but four joined by an invisible zero-width joiner, which is why some apps split it into ❤️ and 🩹.
Sad emoji combos
Combos pair a face with something that sets the mood — a wilted rose, a bandage, a raincloud. They work in a status or a caption where a single emoji would feel too small.
Crying emoji and crying kaomoji
Crying kaomoji are sad faces made only of text, with the tears drawn by characters such as ╥ or ಥ. Because they are plain text, they never turn into boxes and they read gentler than 😭 — which is why many people use them in DMs rather than in public posts.
Is 😭 always sad?
No. 😭 is the loudly crying face, but in chats it is used at least as often for laughing too hard, for something unbearably cute, or for being overwhelmed. “This video 😭😭” almost never means the video was sad. Context decides; if you want to be sure you read as genuinely upset, 😢 or a crying kaomoji is less ambiguous.
Is 😂 a crying emoji?
😂 is face with tears of joy (U+1F602): the tears are from laughing. And 😪, which people often mistake for crying, is the sleepy face — the drop by its nose is the snot bubble that comics use to show someone asleep, not a tear.
Missing someone and heartbreak combos
These lean on hearts and short words — “miss you” in script letters, a heart with a strike through it. For a wider choice of broken and mending hearts, see the heart emoji and heart symbols page.
Rainy-day and lonely aesthetic combos
Not every sad post is about a person. Rain, headphones, falling leaves and a lone walker 🚶 make up a quieter, moodier aesthetic that works for a late-night story or a playlist caption.
Sad faces with no emoji at all
These are built entirely from text characters: curved lines, dots and small letters. They take up little space, keep the colour of your text and are the safest option for usernames, gaming names and apps that strip emoji. If a small face such as ᴖ̈ looks odd, that is the combining diaeresis above it — paste it and it sits correctly.
Not every sad string is really sad — 💀 in a chat usually means “I’m dead” from laughing, which we cover on the skull emoji page. If you found a crying face somewhere and do not know what it is called, the what is this emoji lookup names it, and the soft crying-bunny style lives in our cute emoji and kaomoji collection. Everything else is on the COOLMOJI homepage.
When an emoji is not enough
If you are sending sad emoji because things feel heavy rather than for a caption, talking to someone helps more than any face can. In India, Tele-MANAS, the government’s free mental health helpline, answers on 14416 in several languages, around the clock.
FAQ
What is a 😭?
It is the loudly crying face, U+1F62D. It shows sobbing, but it is also used for laughing hard or being overwhelmed by something cute.
What is the difference between 😢 and 😭?
😢 (crying face) has a single tear and reads as quietly, genuinely sad. 😭 (loudly crying face) has streams of tears and is more dramatic, often playful.
Is 😪 a crying emoji?
No. 😪 is the sleepy face; the drop is a snot bubble, the comic shorthand for sleeping.
How do I type a crying kaomoji?
Copy one from the crying kaomoji section, such as (╥﹏╥) or (ಥ﹏ಥ). They are ordinary text characters, so they paste into any app.
Why does 🥹 show as a box?
Face holding back tears was added in Emoji 14.0 in 2021. Phones without a system update since then do not have it in their emoji font.
