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

420 kaomoji

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