The sob is Loudly crying face, U+1F62D: press Copy and it is yours. Below are 54 more ways to cry, from the single tear to T_T. For iPhone crying emoji copy paste it is this same character: the reader's device supplies the drawing.
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Sob emoji copy and paste, by search word
Search reads Unicode names and CLDR, Unicode's list of search words, so bawling finds the sob and whew finds Sad but relieved face. Pick a skin tone under More options and Folded hands follows it, as do the four combos with a hand in them.
What arrives at the other end
Face holding back tears dates from Emoji 14.0, and a device with older fonts shows an empty box. T_T, ;_;, :'( and QQ are plain ASCII and arrive anywhere text does. (เฒฅ๏นเฒฅ) borrows a Kannada letter and (เฎ๏นเฎ) a Tamil one, so each needs a font for that script.
Tips
For cry emoji copy and paste at a lower volume, take Crying face: one tear, closed mouth. Keep the sob for streams.
Sad but relieved face looks like crying, but CLDR files its drop under sweat and whew. Send it for a narrow escape.
Replying to someone's bad day, pick Sob, then a hug. It ends on People hugging, the only emoji CLDR files under comfort.
Questions and answers
Which one is the sobbing emoji?
Loudly crying face, U+1F62D: sobbing emoji copy and paste is one press of Copy. No Unicode character has sob or sobbing in its name. The word comes from CLDR, which files this face under sob, bawling, cry and tears. It dates from Emoji 0.6.
Apple crying emoji copy and paste: is it a different character?
No. There is one Loudly crying face, and every maker draws its own. UTS #51, Unicode's emoji report, says the shape can vary and asks designers to keep the same core shape. You copy the code point, and the displaying device picks the drawing.
Is there a happy crying emoji?
Three, under Happy tears: Face with tears of joy, Cat with tears of joy and Rolling on the floor laughing, which CLDR files under crying and tear. Smiling face with tear is the quiet one: CLDR lists grateful, proud and touched.
๐ฟCrying catU+1F63F. One of the 9 cat faces, and the only one in tears of the sad kind. Emoji 0.6.
๐ขCrying faceU+1F622. The quiet one: a single tear and a closed mouth. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฅนFace holding back tearsU+1F979. Eyes full and nothing falling yet. CLDR lists it under both sad and proud. Emoji 14.0.
๐ญLoudly crying faceU+1F62D. The sob. Unicode never uses that word in the name, but CLDR lists sob and bawling among its search words. Emoji 0.6.
๐ชSleepy faceU+1F62A. Named sleepy face, but CLDR lists crying and sad for it, so a search for crying finds it. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฅฒSmiling face with tearU+1F972. A smile with one tear. CLDR lists happy and pain for the same face. Emoji 13.0.
๐ฉWeary faceU+1F629. Named weary, not crying, yet CLDR lists crying and nooo among its search words. Emoji 0.6.
Happy tears 3
๐นCat with tears of joyU+1F639. The same joke, told by the cat. Emoji 0.6.
๐Face with tears of joyU+1F602. Laughing tears. Send it in place of the sob and the message flips. Emoji 0.6.
๐คฃRolling on the floor laughingU+1F923. No tear in the name, but CLDR lists crying and tear for it. Emoji 3.0.
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Sad, but dry 5
๐Disappointed faceU+1F61E. Shares the word dejected with Pensive face in CLDR, and adds fail. Emoji 0.6.
โน๏ธFrowning faceU+2639 U+FE0F. The oldest face here: U+2639 has been in Unicode since version 1.1, so it also has a plain text form. Emoji 0.7.
๐Pensive faceU+1F614. Eyes down, mouth small. Sad without the water. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฅบPleading faceU+1F97A. Big wet eyes and no tear. CLDR lists begging, puppy and sad. Emoji 11.0.
๐ฅSad but relieved faceU+1F625. The drop on this one is sweat, going by CLDR, which lists sweat and whew and no tear. Emoji 0.6.
Tears, rain and tissues 11
๐Broken heartU+1F494. The usual reason. CLDR lists heartbroken and lonely. Emoji 0.6.
๐ง๏ธCloud with rainU+1F327 U+FE0F. Weather for the mood. It has a text form as well. Emoji 0.7.
๐งDropletU+1F4A7. One drop. CLDR lists tear and sad for it, so it passes as a single tear. Emoji 0.6.
๐Folded handsU+1F64F. Please, or thank you. It takes a skin tone, and so does the combo built on it. Emoji 0.6.
โค๏ธโ๐ฉนMending heartU+2764 U+FE0F U+200D U+1FA79. Red heart joined to Adhesive bandage. For the day after the sob. Emoji 13.1.
๐ซPeople huggingU+1FAC2. The only emoji CLDR files under comfort. Emoji 13.0.
๐งปRoll of paperU+1F9FB. Unicode has no tissue emoji. CLDR lists paper, roll, toilet and towels for this one, and it is the closest. Emoji 11.0.
๐ฆSweat dropletsU+1F4A6. Three drops. CLDR calls them sweat and splashing, never tears, but they read as a burst of them. Emoji 0.6.
โUmbrella with rain dropsU+2614. Rain with some cover. A single code point that defaults to the emoji drawing. Emoji 0.6.
๐Water waveU+1F30A. For when a droplet undersells it. Emoji 0.6.
๐ฅWilted flowerU+1F940. CLDR lists dying, flower and wilted. Quieter than a sob. Emoji 3.0.
Text crying faces 15
(ยด;ฯ;`)Omega mouth, a semicolon tear each side
(เฎ๏นเฎ)Tamil letter i for swirling, welling eyes
(เฒฅ๏นเฒฅ)Kannada letter tha for brimming eyes
(โฌโฌ๏นโฌโฌ)Four table corners make two streams
(โฅ๏นโฅ)Box-drawing eyes over a wavy mouth
(โฏ๏ธตโฐ,)Arc brows, a bracket frown, one comma tear
(ใะ`)ใปใใปใHand over the face, drops trailing off
:'(Sideways face: the apostrophe is the tear
;_;Semicolon eyes, a tear under each
ใ ใ Hangul letter yu, twice: tears in Korean chat
๏ฝก๏พ(๏พยดะ๏ฝ๏พ)๏พ๏ฝกThe full wail: Cyrillic De for a mouth
(ใoใ)Bopomofo letter x for T-shaped eyes
QQTwo capital Q: round eyes with tear tails
T_TCapital T eyes: the stems are the tears
(TโฝT)Open triangle mouth: crying, but happy
Sobbing combos 14
๐ญ๐Crying both waysLoudly crying face, then face with tears of joy. Sad tears, then laughing ones.
๐ญ๐Flood of tearsLoudly crying face, then water wave. A sob with the volume shown.
๐ฅน๐ซถHolding it in, heart handsFace holding back tears, then heart hands. Touched, and nearly crying about it. Both parts date from Emoji 14.0.
๐๐ญSkull and sobSkull, then loudly crying face. Dead from laughing, then crying about it. CLDR lists lmao among the search words for Skull.
๐ญ๐Sob and broken heartLoudly crying face, then broken heart. The cause and the effect, in the wrong order.
๐ง๏ธ๐ญ๐ง๏ธSob in the rainCloud with rain, then loudly crying face, then cloud with rain. Weather on both sides.
๐ญ๐งปSob with tissuesLoudly crying face, then roll of paper. The closest Unicode gets to a box of tissues.
๐ญโSob, hand upLoudly crying face, then raised hand. Stop, it is too much. The hand follows the skin tone you pick.
๐ญ๐ซSob, then a hugLoudly crying face, then people hugging. For replying to someone else having a bad day.
๐ญ๐Sobbing thank youLoudly crying face, then folded hands. Grateful to the point of tears. The hands follow the skin tone you pick.
๐ฅน๐ข๐ญThree stages of cryingFace holding back tears, then crying face, then loudly crying face. Holding back, one tear, all of them.
๐ฅฒ๐Thumbs up through itSmiling face with tear, then thumbs up. Everything is fine. The thumb follows the skin tone you pick.
๐ญ๐ญ๐ญTriple sobLoudly crying face 3 times. For when one is not loud enough.
๐ฅ๐ขWilted and weepingWilted flower, then crying face. The quiet version: no noise, one tear.
How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed by hand. The 26 emoji, their names, code points, skin tones and Emoji version numbers come from emoji-test.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/emoji/emoji-test.txt); names are the CLDR short names printed in that file, in sentence case. The search words quoted in the notes are from the CLDR English annotations (https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/annotations/en.xml, main branch). The groups Crying faces and Happy tears, with Droplet, are every emoji to which that file gives one of the search words cry, crying, tear, tears or sob: 11 in all. The text forms come from emoji-variation-sequences.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-variation-sequences.txt). The other emoji, the 15 text faces and the 14 combos are this site's own choice, and the combo names are our own. Every character in a text face was checked against UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and a note that names a letter uses its name from that file. Wikipedia's articles Emoticon and List of emoticons record T_T, ;_; and QQ as crying faces and the Hangul vowel letters as tears (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon). All sources were checked on 2026-09-19. Licence: own work (the selection, the combo names and the wording are ours; emoji names, sequences and search words come from Unicode's data files and CLDR, under the Unicode License v3; facts from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, restated in our own words and credited in source)