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<p>A yellow face with an open mouth wailing and streams of heavy tears flowing from closed eyes. May convey inconsolable grief&nbsp;but also other intense feelings, such as uncontrollable laughter, pride or overwhelming joy.</p>

<p>In March 2021,&nbsp;😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face became&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">the most popular emoji on Twitter</a>. It held this position until January 2022, when&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face with Tears of Joy</a> <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/tears-of-joy-just-about-returns-as-twitters-top-emoji/">returned as the top emoji on the platform</a>.</p>

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Loudly Crying Face

<p>A yellow face with a big grin and scrunched, X-shaped eyes, tilted on its side as if rolling on the floor laughing (the internet acronym <em>ROFL</em>). Sheds&nbsp;two tears and tilts right on most platforms. Often conveys hysterical laughter&nbsp;more intense than <a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face With Tears of Joy</a>.</p>

<p>Using shown tilted leftwards, though WhatsApp&#39;s design tilts to the right.</p>

<p>Microsoft&#39;s design <a href="/microsoft/windows-10-anniversary-update/rolling-on-the-floor-laughing/">previously featured</a> a smiley with hands and feet.</p>

Rolling on the Floor Laughing

<p>A yellow face with a big&nbsp;grin, uplifted eyebrows, and smiling eyes, each shedding a tear from laughing so hard. Widely used to show something is funny or pleasing.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Named the Oxford Dictionaries 2015 <a href="https://languages.oup.com/word-of-the-year/2015/">Word of the Year</a>, and the most used emoji on all platforms <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">from 2011-2021</a>. Briefly <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/loudly-crying-becomes-top-tier-emoji/">overtaken</a> as the top emoji on <a href="/twitter/">Twitter</a> in 2021 by&nbsp;<a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭 Loudly Crying Face</a>, though as of January 2022 it has <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/tears-of-joy-just-about-returns-as-twitters-top-emoji/">reclaimed its top position on the platform</a>.</p>

<p>See also:&nbsp;<a href="/rolling-on-the-floor-laughing/">🤣&nbsp;Rolling on the Floor Laughing</a>&nbsp;which expresses more intense laughter;&nbsp;or cat&nbsp;variant:&nbsp;<a href="/cat-with-tears-of-joy/">😹&nbsp;Cat Face With Tears of Joy</a>.</p>

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Face with Tears of Joy

<p>A yellow smiley face melting into a puddle.&nbsp;</p>

<p>The eyes and mouth slip down the face, yet still maintain a distorted smile. This quality lends this emoji to sarcasm.</p>

<p>Can be used literally to talk about extreme heat. Can also be used metaphorically to talk about embarrassment, shame, a slowly sinking sense of dread, or feeling overwhelmed in some way.</p>

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Melting Face

<p>A yellow face with open eyes, a thin closed-mouth smile, and a single tear falling from one of its eyes. Can be used to express a wide range of emotions and expressions&nbsp;including gratitude, tender happiness, an attempt to look happy when actually sad, or&nbsp;smiling through pain. Can also be a response to something that is bittersweet.</p>

<p>This emoji and <a href="/slightly-smiling-face/">🙂 Slightly Smiling Face</a> have a similar smile, and <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a> and <a href="/crying-cat/">😿 Crying Cat</a> have a similar lone tear. Not to be confused with&nbsp;<a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face with Tears of Joy</a>, which has a wide toothy grin&nbsp;and tears coming from both eyes.</p>

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Smiling Face with Tear

<p>A pensive, remorseful face. Saddened by life. Quietly considering where things all went wrong.&nbsp;Depicted as a yellow face with sad, closed eyes, furrowed eyebrows, and a slight, flat mouth.</p>

<p>May convey a variety of sad emotions, including feeling disappointed, hurt, or lonely. Less intense than other sad emojis like <a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face</a> and more introspective.</p>

<p>Microsoft&#39;s design&nbsp;<a href="/microsoft/windows-10/pensive-face/">previously featured</a> a more neutral, bored expression. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.0/pensive-face/">previously looked</a> more guilty or worried.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/relieved-face/">😌&nbsp;Relieved Face</a>, which has similarly shaped eyes but in a happier expression.</p>

Pensive Face

<p>A yellow face with closed eyes, mouth slightly open, and a blue snot bubble coming from its nose. <a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SnotBubble">Snot bubbles</a> indicate a character is tired or sleeping in anime or manga.&nbsp;Not to be confused with <a href="/sleeping-face/">😴 Sleeping Face</a>&nbsp;</p>

<p>While sometimes used to convey sadness, dissastification, or illness, Sleepy Face is also not to be confused with <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a>, <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥 Sad but Relieved Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets.&nbsp;Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/">previously featured</a> two, cartoon-styled, <a href="/zzz/">sleeping-symbol&nbsp;Zz&rsquo;s</a> overhead.</p>

<p>A <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/sleepy-face/">previous</a> Microsoft design appeared similar to <a href="/relieved-face/">😌 Relieved Face</a>.</p>

Sleepy Face

<p>A yellow face with a half-frown and white bandage wrapped around its head, often depicted partially over one eye. May represent physical injury or pain but also emotional hurting, sometimes for ironic effect.</p>

<p>Differs from other smileys conveying illness, such as <a href="/nauseated-face/">🤢 Nauseated Face</a> (appearing as if it&rsquo;s going to vomit) or <a href="/face-with-thermometer/">🤒 Face With Thermometer</a> (used especially for colds and flus).</p>

<p>Huawei&#39;s design for this emoji has a heavily bruised eye as well as a head bandage.</p>

Face with Head-Bandage

<p>A yellow face with furrowed eyebrows, a small frown, and large, &ldquo;puppy dog&rdquo; eyes, as if begging, pleading, or yearning (possibly even in a&nbsp;<a href="/nsfw">NSFW</a> manner, depending on the context). May also represent adoration or feeling touched&nbsp;by a loving gesture.</p>

<p>Huawei&#39;s design for this emoji includes a pair of&nbsp;<a href="/folded-hands">🙏 Folded Hands</a>.</p>

<p>At its peak the Pleading Face was&nbsp;<a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/a-new-king-pleading-face/">the&nbsp;third most popular emoji used on Twitter</a>, and was the most commonly found emoji <a href="https://blog.emojipedia.org/what-every-heart-emoji-really-means/">in tweets that include hearts</a>. Used in sequence with pointing hands to indicate a bashful or shy pose (🥺👉👈)&nbsp;<a href="/tiktok/">particularly on TikTok</a>.</p>

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Face with Pleading Eyes

<p>A yellow face with tears welling up at the bottom of its two large eyes.</p>

<p>May be used to express a range of emotions including sadness, anger, embarrassment, admiration, and gratitude.&nbsp;</p>

<p><a href="/smiling-face-with-tear/">🥲 Smiling Face with Tear</a> and <a href="/pleading-face/">🥺 Pleading Face</a> can be used in some similar&nbsp;contexts.</p>

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Face Holding Back Tears

<p>A face with open eyes and a small, open frown. Its eyebrows are furrowed, with a single bead of cold sweat dripping down, and its forehead is pale blue, as if experiencing a <a href="/cold-face/">cold</a> flash. Samsung&#39;s design shows upper teeth and tongue.</p>

<p>Meaning widely varies, but commonly conveys such feelings as sadness, disappointment, fear, and anxiety. Similar to <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad but Relieved Face</a>, but with a blue head and larger frown.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/crying-face/">😢&nbsp;Crying Face</a>, <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪&nbsp;Sleepy Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets. <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/anxious-face-with-sweat/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/anxious-face-with-sweat/">Samsung</a> previously featured smileys that appeared more excited in expression.</p>

Face with Open Mouth and Cold Sweat

<p>A yellow face with raised eyebrows and a slight frown, shedding a single, blue tear from one eye down its cheek. May convey a moderate degree of sadness or pain, usually less intensely than <a href="/loudly-crying-face/">😭&nbsp;Loudly Crying Face</a>.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad but Relieved Face</a>, <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪&nbsp;Sleepy Face</a>, or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets. Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/crying-face/">previously featured</a> tears welling up in both eyes.</p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/crying-cat/">😿&nbsp;Crying Face</a>.</p>

Crying Face

<p>A yellow face with closed eyes, frown, and a bead of sweat dripping from its forehead. Usually depicted with a single sweat bead on its right side, though Facebook and WhatsApp include the sweat bead on its left side.</p>

<p>Meaning widely varies, but commonly conveys a moderate degree of sadness, pain, frustration, or disappointment, similar to <a href="/crying-face/">😢&nbsp;Crying Face</a> and <a href="/sad-but-relieved-face/">😥&nbsp;Sad But Relieved Face</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/grinning-face-with-sweat/">😅&nbsp;Grinning Face With Sweat</a> or other emojis with tear or sweat droplets.</p>

<p>Google&nbsp;<a href="/google/android-8.0/downcast-face-with-sweat/">previously featured</a> a blue face. Microsoft <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/downcast-face-with-sweat/">previously depicted</a> multiple beads of sweat from around the smiley&rsquo;s forehead. Earlier designs <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/downcast-face-with-sweat/">from Samsung</a> had more <a href="/pleading-face/">pleading</a> eyes.</p>

Face with Cold Sweat

<p>A yellow face with closed eyes, furrowed brows, and a broad, open frown, as if distraught to the point of giving up. Usually shown with upper teeth and sometimes tongue.</p>

<p>May convey various feelings&nbsp;of frustration, lust, sadness, amusement, and affection.&nbsp;Often playful in tone.</p>

<p>Similar in appearance and meaning to <a href="/tired-face/">😫&nbsp;Tired Face</a>, but with crescent-shaped eyes. Huawei&#39;s design has its <a href="/tongue">tongue</a> hanging out of its mouth. Samsung&rsquo;s design previously featured large eyes half-closed in tiredness.</p>

<p>This emoji has a cat variant, <a href="/weary-cat/">🙀&nbsp;Weary Cat Face</a>, though it more closely resembles <a href="/face-screaming-in-fear/">😱&nbsp;Face Screaming in Fear</a>.</p>

Weary Face

<p>A yellow face with scrunched, X-shaped eyes, furrowed eyebrows, and a broad, open frown, as if yawning in exhaustion or groaning in exasperation. Usually shown with upper teeth and sometimes tongue.</p>

<p>While intended to represent tiredness, it commonly conveys various degrees and tones of frustration and sadness as well excitement and affection, as if it just can&rsquo;t handle how great someone or something is.</p>

<p>Similar in appearance and meaning to <a href="/weary-face/">😩 Weary Face</a>, but with scrunched eyes. Not to be confused with <a href="/sleepy-face/">😪 Sleepy Face</a> or <a href="/sleeping-face/">😴 Sleeping Face</a>, which often convey actually being asleep.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Samsung&rsquo;s design <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/tired-face/">previously featured</a> three, vertical, blue lines over its forehead, which can indicate fatigue in manga and anime. A <a href="/microsoft/windows-8.1/tired-face/">previous</a> Microsoft design was <a href="/yawning-face/">yawning</a>.</p>

Tired Face

<p>A whitish-gray, cartoon-styled human skull with large, black eye sockets. Commonly expresses figurative death, e.g., <i>dying</i> from extreme laughter, frustration, or affection.</p>

<p>Popular around <a href="/halloween/">Halloween</a>. Not to be confused with <a href="/skull-and-crossbones/">☠️&nbsp;Skull and Crossbones</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p>Available as an Apple&nbsp;<a href="/animoji/">Animoji</a>.</p>

<div id="professor_prebid-root">This emoji predates the inclusion of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by <a href="/softbank">Softbank</a>&nbsp;in <a href="/softbank/1999/skull">1999</a>.</div>

Skull

<p>A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/face-with-tears-of-joy/">😂 Face With Tears of Joy</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.</p>

Cat Face with Tears of Joy

<p>A cartoon cat variant of <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a>. Depicted as yellow on major platforms.</p>

Crying Cat Face

<p>A love&nbsp;heart, broken in two. This emoji represents the aching one feels when they are missing the&nbsp;person they love.</p>

Broken Heart

<p>A heart shown with a bandage across one side; the opposite of a <a href="/broken-heart/">broken heart</a>. May be used to indicate&nbsp;the process of healing,&nbsp;recovery, or to express sympathy for someone going through a difficult time.</p>

Mending Heart

<p>Three, light blue droplets, as sweat beads, splashing down to the right. Resembles&nbsp;<em><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lexicon_of_Comicana">plewds</a></em>, stylized sweat droplets used in comics and animation to show characters working hard or feeling stressed.</p>

<p>May be used to represent various types of liquids, including sexual fluids. May also be used to represent various liquid-based slang expressions (e.g., <i>drip</i>, &ldquo;exceptional style, swagger&quot;).</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/droplet/">💧 Droplet</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p><a href="/google/android-7.0/sweat-droplets/">Google</a>, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/sweat-droplets/">Microsoft</a>, and <a href="/samsung/touchwiz-7.1/sweat-droplets/">Samsung&#39;s</a> design previously featured two, upwardly directed droplets.</p>

Splashing Sweat Symbol

<p>A small rowboat suitable for&nbsp;a small number of people.&nbsp;<a href="/couple-with-heart/" title="💑 Couple With Heart">Couples</a>&nbsp;or <a href="/family/" title="👪 Family">families</a> sometimes hire these as an activity on calm waters.</p>

Rowboat

<p>The male version of the <a href="/person-rowing-boat/">🚣&nbsp;Rowboat</a> emoji.</p>

Man Rowing Boat

<p>The female version of the <a href="/person-rowing-boat/">🚣&nbsp;Rowboat</a> emoji.</p>

Woman Rowing Boat

<p>A person swimming in a pool, the <a href="/water-wave/" title="🌊 Water Wave">ocean</a>, or another body of water.&nbsp;Lacked goggles&nbsp;on prior versions of iOS.</p>

<p>Swims facing to the left of screen on all major platforms.</p>

Swimmer

<p>The male version of the <a href="/person-swimming/">🏊&nbsp;Swimmer</a> emoji.</p>

Man Swimming

<p>The female version of the <a href="/person-swimming/">🏊&nbsp;Swimmer</a> emoji.</p>

Woman Swimming

<p>Blue raindrops falling from a white cloud with a lightning bolt flashing.</p>

<p>May be used as a weather icon to represent thundershowers.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/cloud-with-lightning/">🌩️ Cloud With Lightning</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

Thunder Cloud and Rain

<p>A rain cloud. (Keep dry with <a href="/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">☔ Umbrella With Rain Drops</a>.) Depicted as blue raindrops falling from a white cloud. Most platforms depict the raindrops falling to the left.</p>

<p>May be used as a weather icon to represent rain showers or a rainy day.</p>

<p>Samsung&rsquo;s cloud was <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/cloud-with-rain/">previously</a> bluish.</p>

Cloud with Rain

<p>An umbrella that is closed, likely as a result of <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Collapse-an-Umbrella">collapsing</a> it prior to going indoors.</p>

<p>Shows as purple on Apple and Samsung devices, as well as on Twitter. It is&nbsp;blue&nbsp;on Google devices and Facebook, and green on WhatsApp.</p>

Closed Umbrella

<p>An opened, dry umbrella. Generally depicted with purple fabric and a hooked handle.</p>

<p>Commonly used for various content concerning rainy weather. Occasionally used as a purple accent color.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">☔ Umbrella With Rain Drops</a> or <a href="/closed-umbrella/">🌂 Closed Umbrella</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p>WhatsApp&rsquo;s umbrella is green. Google&rsquo;s umbrella was <a href="/google/android-7.0/umbrella/">previously</a> blue, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/umbrella/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/umbrella/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a>&nbsp;once red.</p>

Umbrella

<p>An umbrella, opened to provide cover from rain. Generally depicted with purple fabric and a hooked handle with several rain <a href="/droplet/">droplets</a> falling on its top.</p>

<p>Commonly used for various content concerning rainy weather.</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/umbrella/">☂️ Umbrella</a> or <a href="/closed-umbrella/">🌂 Closed Umbrella</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

<p>WhatsApp&rsquo;s umbrella is green. Google&rsquo;s umbrella was <a href="/google/android-7.0/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">previously</a> blue, <a href="/microsoft/windows-10/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">Microsoft</a> and <a href="/samsung/experience-9.0/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">Samsung&rsquo;s</a> red, and <a href="/facebook/1.0/umbrella-with-rain-drops/">Facebook&rsquo;s</a> once pink.</p>

<p>In 2016, a Durex <a href="http://thenextweb.com/lifestyle/2016/11/30/durex-condom-emoji/">poll</a>&nbsp;voted this emoji to (unofficially)&nbsp;represent&nbsp;condoms and safe sex for World AIDS Day.</p>

Umbrella with Rain Drops

<p>A single, light blue droplet, as of water, sweat, or tears.</p>

<p>May be used for various types of liquid. May also be used to expression sadness, as in <a href="/crying-face/">😢 Crying Face</a>,&nbsp;or for various liquid-based slang expressions (e.g., <i>drip</i>, &ldquo;exceptional style, swagger&quot;).</p>

<p>Not to be confused with <a href="/sweat-droplets/">💦 Sweat Droplets</a>, though their applications may overlap.</p>

Droplet

<p>A wave of water, as breaks at the beach. Depicted as a blue wave with a foamy, white crest, curling to the right.</p>

<p>May be used to represent water in general, various bodies of water like oceans, and water activities, such as&nbsp;<a href="/person-swimming/">swimming</a>, <a href="/person-surfing/">surfing</a>, and <a href="/sailboat/">sailing</a>. May also&nbsp;be used to represent metaphorical waves.</p>

<p>Apple&rsquo;s design resembles the iconic wave in&nbsp;Japanese artist Hokusai&rsquo;s famous woodblock print, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Wave_off_Kanagawa">The Great Wave off Kanagawa</a>&nbsp;</i>(ca. 1830).</p>

Water Wave

😭 Loudly Crying Face on Apple iOS 17.4

😭 Loudly Crying Face on Apple iOS 17.4

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