Crying Kaomoji

How this list was compiled: Built by script on 2026-09-19, not typed into the page by hand. The 116 entries are this site's own selection and arrangement: each was put together for this page from the parts a kaomoji is made of (brackets, eyes, a mouth, hands) with a tear somewhere, and many are forms in common use that nobody owns. Wikipedia's List of emoticons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emoticons, read 2026-09-19) gives (/_;), (T_T), (;_;), (;_:), (;O;), (ToT), (Ｔ▽Ｔ), ;_;, ;-;, ;n;, ;;, Q.Q, T.T, TnT, QQ and Q_Q in one row as Sad, crying; ;-;, T_T, T-T and QQ in another as Crying; and (´；ω；`) among its emoticons from a Japanese discussion board as Terribly sad. Its ( ༎ຶ ۝ ༎ຶ ), Crying, is left out because its mouth is Arabic end of ayah (U+06DD), a format character; the same eyes are used here over other mouths. Its sideways :'( and :') are read with the head tilted and are left to the site's text faces page, and its （ つ Д ｀）, Sad, shows no tear, so the form here adds falling drops. Wikipedia's article Kaomoji (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaomoji, read 2026-09-19) says that T can be used to express crying or sadness, as in (T_T), that T_T may also be used to mean unimpressed, and counts ;_; and T_T among the upright forms that drop the brackets. Wikipedia's article Emoticon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon, read 2026-09-19) says that users of a Japanese discussion board used the Kannada letter ಥ to represent a tearing eye, and that the Korean vowel letters ㅜ and ㅠ can depict a crying face, with the same function as T. The labels, groups and order are our own. The Japanese words come from Wiktionary, each entry read 2026-09-19: shikushiku, with a whimper, weeping, sob (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/しくしく); uruuru, teary-eyed (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/うるうる); naku, to cry, to weep, to sob (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/泣く); namida, tear, teardrop (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/涙); pien, slang, onomatopoeia for the pleading face emoji, from 2018 (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ぴえん); gōkyū, wailing, lamentation, crying (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/号泣); mesomeso, blubbing, sobbing (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/めそめそ); ureshinaki, crying for happiness (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/嬉し泣き); kandō, to be impressed, to be moved (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/感動); nakimushi, a crybaby (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/泣き虫); morainaki, crying in sympathy (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/もらいなき); poroporo, falling in large drops (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ぽろぽろ); namidame, tear-filled eyes, eyes brimming with tears (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/涙目); gusun, the sound of sniffling during crying (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ぐすん); usonaki, crocodile tears, fake crying (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/嘘泣き); tamanegi, onion (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/玉葱); kuyashii, regrettable, frustrating, vexing (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/悔しい); zangyō, doing overtime work (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/残業). Every character of every entry was looked up in UnicodeData.txt, version 18.0.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/UnicodeData.txt), and must be an assigned, visible character. Emoji are left out. A capital T, plain or fullwidth, is in 26 entries and a semicolon, plain or fullwidth, in 31; Kannada letter tha (U+0CA5) is in 10, a box drawing tee (U+2565 or U+2533) in 7, a Korean vowel letter (U+3160 or U+315C) in 4. The heavy tears are two characters, Tibetan mark nyis shad (U+0F0E) and Lao vowel sign y (U+0EB6). The drops are Ideographic full stop (U+3002) and Katakana-hiragana semi-voiced sound mark (U+309C), with Halfwidth katakana middle dot (U+FF65) between them in 4 entries. The bawling face is often written with the halfwidth full stop and sound mark (U+FF61, U+FF9F); it is given here once, with the two characters named above, because the halfwidth sound mark joins the character before it (PropList.txt, Other_Grapheme_Extend) and the two spellings look the same. No entry holds a heart, star, sparkle, flower or note, a halo or wings, a wave or a thumb: the family gives those to other pages, which carry crying faces of their own. "Borrows" under an entry names each character from outside the blocks of punctuation, common symbols and Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Japanese letters, with its script from Scripts.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Scripts.txt) or, for a Latin or common character, its block from Blocks.txt (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/Blocks.txt). "Is on the emoji list" names each character that has the Emoji property in emoji-data.txt, version 18.0 (https://www.unicode.org/Public/18.0.0/ucd/emoji/emoji-data.txt). "Short" means 6 code points or fewer, spaces counted. "Keyboard only" means every character is printable ASCII. Nothing here says how any one device draws a face. Licence: own work