Emojion

😭 loudly crying face

Meaning

Literally "loudly crying," but in English it surged as the new 😂 — laughing too hard, or any overflowing emotion. Often not sad at all.

Keywords: bawling, cry, crying, face, loudly, sad, sob, tear, tears, unhappy

📍 How it's used where you are

United States

Mostly "laughing too hard" or "emotionally overwhelmed" (often positively); literal sadness is the minority.

💡 Did you know?

In Unicode's 2021 ranking of the most-used emoji worldwide, 😭 came in fifth — the only crying face in the top ten. Most of those uses are not sadness at all, but a way of saying the feeling was too much to contain.

💡 Did you know?

Did you hear the new single?
I did 😭😭 it's too good, I can't
Oh no… was it that bad?

😭 usually means "this made me emotional / this is too much / I'm laughing so hard I'm crying" — actual sadness tends to go to 😢 or 🥹. Read it literally and the conversation heads the wrong way.

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How it's used around the world

  • Japan

    Mostly literal: sobbing, sadness, frustration — plus tears of being moved.

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