Sad Kaomoji (╥﹏╥) — 15 Free Crying Faces 2026

Crying kaomoji explained: box drawing character U+2565, wavy low line U+FE4F, Kannada tha U+0CA5 and Tamil i U+0B87

Sad Kaomoji — copy in one tap

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Try it with your own name

Type a name, copy any style — 24 frames, one tap each

Paste the result into a display name or bio. A TikTok or Instagram @username accepts only letters, numbers, dots and underscores — decorated characters are rejected there.

Where these are accepted

Tested per field — the honest version

App / field	Decoration	Limit	Last tested	What actually happens
TikTok username (@handle)	Rejected / stripped	2–24 characters	August 2026	Letters, numbers, underscore and dot only, and it cannot start or end with a dot. Decorated characters are rejected outright.
TikTok display name	Accepted	No decoration limit found	August 2026	Accepts symbols, kaomoji and decorated combos. This is the field every "TikTok font" guide actually means.
Instagram bio & name	Accepted	Both fields accept decoration	August 2026	Bio and display name both take decorated characters. The @username does not.
Game display names (Roblox, Free Fire)	Rejected / stripped	Emoji stripped; text marks usually pass	Not tested in-game	Colour emoji are stripped from most in-game name fields, while plain marks — ⋆ ★ 𐙚 ୨୧ ✧ — usually survive. Each game runs its own private filter and changes it without notice, so use the rename preview before you confirm.
Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp	Accepted	Long combining stacks may be trimmed	August 2026	Display names and messages accept the full range. Very long combining stacks may be trimmed in narrow layouts.

Platform filters are undocumented and change without notice, so we re-test rather than copy forward — see how we curate and verify.

Sad kaomoji cover the range from teary (╥﹏╥) to a flat, let‑down stare. The tears and the downturned mouth carry the mood.

They are plain text and paste anywhere; pick a gentle one for chat and a stronger one for emphasis.

How to use sad kaomoji

Messages: a soft (；；) shows you are a little down without over‑doing it.
Comments: a let‑down face reacts without words.
Captions: a crying face sets a wistful tone.
Stories: use late‑night blue faces sparingly.

For everyday chat a small teardrop reads better than a full sobbing face.

The tears are box-drawing characters

The crying face (╥﹏╥) is made from characters that were never meant for faces at all: ╥ is a box-drawing character, designed in the terminal era for drawing tables and borders on a text screen.

Symbol	Code point	What it really is
	U+2565	Box drawings down double and horizontal single — the streaming tear
	U+FE4F	Wavy low line — the trembling mouth
	U+0CA5	Kannada letter tha — the weeping eye
	U+0B87	Tamil letter i — another weeping eye
	U+3160	Hangul letter yu — the Korean crying eyes
	U+315C	Hangul letter u — a single tear

The Korean pair is the neatest of them: ㆠㆠ reads as two eyes streaming because the letter itself has two downward strokes.

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(╥_╥) meaning and other crying faces

(╥_╥) means quiet crying: the ╥ eyes are streams of tears and the flat _ mouth shows the person has stopped fighting it. Its louder twin (╥﹏╥) swaps in a wavy mouth for sobbing. The table shows what the common crying kaomoji usually mean when they turn up in a message.

Copy	Usually means	Built from
	Quiet, resigned crying	╥ tear eyes, _ flat mouth
	Sobbing, really upset	﹏ wavy line (U+FE4F) as a trembling mouth
	Holding back tears	‸ caret as a tight mouth
	Teary-eyed, moved or hurt	ಥ Kannada letter tha as weeping eyes
	Pouty, about to cry	︿ downturned mouth
	Loud, dramatic wailing	ᗒ ᗕ squeezed eyes, ᗣ open mouth
	Crying and asking for a hug	っ ς arms reaching out

Crying kaomoji to copy

Crying kaomoji are text faces that show tears with letters such as ╥, ಥ or the stacked marks under ˃̣̣̥ ˂̣̣̥. Pick a soft teary face for a sad caption and a wailing one for a joke about a bad day; all of them copy as plain text.

(⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠) — the same face with hidden characters

(⁠╥⁠﹏⁠╥⁠) looks exactly like (╥﹏╥) but carries an invisible WORD JOINER (U+2060) between its characters. Some kaomoji lists add word joiners so a face never splits across two lines. In a message that is harmless; in a name field with a character limit, the clean version takes almost half the space.

Copy	Version	Code points
	Clean	5
	With word joiners	9

How to type ╥

╥ is BOX DRAWINGS DOWN DOUBLE AND HORIZONTAL SINGLE, code point U+2565, so it is a line-drawing character rather than an emoji. On a Windows PC with a number pad, hold Alt and type 210 to insert ╥; in Microsoft Word you can also type 2565 and press Alt+X. On a phone, copy it from this page once and save (╥﹏╥) as a text shortcut.

How to use 😭

😭 is LOUDLY CRYING FACE (U+1F62D), and in chat it is used as often for laughing hard or being overwhelmed as for real sadness. For plain sadness many people pick 😢 CRYING FACE (U+1F622) instead. Colour emoji like these are often stripped from game names, so a text face such as (╥﹏╥) is the safer choice there.

A sad bear such as ʕ´• ᴥ•̥`ʔ is on the bear kaomoji page, softer faces are collected under kawaii symbols, and every set lives on SoShareIT Emojis.

Symbol meanings

╥A crying eye.

﹏A wavering, upset mouth.

；A teardrop.

Frequently asked questions

What are the tears made of?Usually the marks ﹏ or ；for streaks and drops under the eyes.

Are they free?Yes, no app needed.

What does (╥_╥) mean?Quiet crying. The ╥ marks are tears running down from the eyes and the flat _ mouth makes it calmer than the sobbing (╥﹏╥).

How do I type ╥ on a keyboard?On Windows hold Alt and type 210 on the number pad, or type 2565 then Alt+X in Microsoft Word. On a phone, copy it once and save it as a text shortcut.

Is 😭 sad or happy?Both. 😭 is the loudly crying face, and it is used for real sadness and for laughing so hard you cry. 😢 is the plainer sad choice.