Crying and sad kaomoji are Japanese text faces built from teary eyes like T, ; or ಥ, sometimes streaming down the face or paired with a sob. Below are 80 original faces in 6 groups: light tears, sobbing, anxious crying, angry crying, a crying Lenny face variant, and happy tears.
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Crying and sad kaomoji are Japanese text faces built from teary eyes like T, ; or ଥ, sometimes streaming down the face or paired with a sob. Below are 80 original faces in 6 groups: light tears, sobbing, anxious crying, angry crying, a crying Lenny face variant, and happy tears.
Copy any crying face in one tap
Tap a face below to copy it exactly as shown, byte for byte, ready to paste into a chat, reply or caption. Crying is one mood in the wider kaomoji by emotion library, grouped here by exactly how the tears read — light, sobbing, anxious, angry, meme-style or happy.
Light tears and welling up
A small ; or 。 near the eye shows tears just starting, not a full cry yet.
Welling eyes · Tears just starting to form.
Classic single tear · Quiet, simple sadness.
Soft crying · A gentle, visible sniffle.
Wobbly tears · Trying not to cry, barely holding on.
Pouty welling eyes · Sad and a little hurt.
Trembling tears · Overwhelmed, close to crying.
Framed single tear · A quiet, private moment of sadness.
Watery wide eyes · Trying to hold back tears and failing.
Downturned sadness · A flat, resigned sad face.
Soft sigh · Quiet, low-energy sadness.
Gentle sniffle · Small, private sadness.
Shaky welling eyes · Nervous and on the verge of tears.
Tired sadness · Worn down, close to tears.
Quiet wobble · Holding back a cry in public.
Spaced-out tears · A slow, building sadness.
Sobbing and crying hard
Repeated marks or wide streaming tears show a full, hard cry.
Streaming tears · Crying openly, no holding back.
Scrunched-up sobbing · Crying so hard your face scrunches up.
Heavy stream · A big, dramatic cry.
Wiping tears · Crying while trying to clean up.
Full sobbing · Openly sobbing, can’t stop.
Nose running too · A messy, all-out cry.
Round wet eyes · A sudden wave of tears.
Hiding face sob · Crying with your face covered.
Streaming from both sides · Tears running freely.
Arms-out sobbing · Breaking down completely.
Heavy teardrops · Big, obvious tears.
Open-mouth sob · Crying loud enough to be heard.
Trailing-off sob · Crying while walking away.
Squeezed-shut sobbing · Crying with eyes shut tight.
Flustered sobbing · Overwhelmed and crying at once.
Anxious and overwhelmed crying
Crying mixed with worry or panic, often with shaking marks.
Confused crying · Crying and not sure why.
Shaky crying · Trembling while trying not to cry.
Panicked tears · Crying from sudden stress.
Frustrated crying · Angry tears from being overwhelmed.
Nervous crying · Crying while anxious about what’s next.
Overwhelmed sob · Too much at once, breaking down.
Embarrassed crying · Crying from a mix of shame and stress.
Face-in-hands panic · Hiding your face while crying.
Dizzy crying · Crying while feeling overwhelmed and unsteady.
Running-away sob · Crying while trying to escape the situation.
Muffled worried cry · Trying to stay quiet while upset.
Needing comfort · Crying and reaching out for support.
Tiny trembling cry · A small, scared kind of crying.
Worried wobble · Anxious, eyes watering.
Flustered worry-cry · Stressed to the point of tears.
Angry and frustrated crying
Tears mixed with anger — crying out of frustration, not just sadness.
Furious sobbing · Crying from pure frustration.
Angry tears · Upset and fuming at the same time.
Table-flip crying · Frustrated enough to flip a table, crying too.
Scrunched angry cry · Crying while gritting your teeth.
Welling frustration · Holding back angry tears.
Red-faced upset · Flushed and close to tears from anger.
Glaring through tears · Angry enough to cry about it.
Clenched frustration · Trying not to cry out of anger.
Side-eye tears · Annoyed and upset at once.
Pouty angry cry · A childish, frustrated almost-cry.
Furious wobble · About to cry from sheer frustration.
Gritted-teeth tears · Holding back tears out of stubbornness.
Snarling upset · Frustrated to the point of tears.
Explosive frustration · Crying from an outburst of anger.
Stubborn almost-cry · Refusing to cry despite being upset.
Crying Lenny face kaomoji
The same combining marks ( ͡ ͜) as the classic Lenny face, with teary eyes instead of a smug look.
Teary Lenny · A sad version of the classic Lenny face.
Welling Lenny · Lenny face right before it starts to cry.
Sobbing Lenny · A fully crying version of the meme face.
Single-tear Lenny · Lenny face with one dramatic tear.
Open-mouth Lenny cry · Lenny face mid-sob.
Tilted crying Lenny · A sideways, melodramatic crying Lenny.
Wide sobbing Lenny · An exaggerated crying Lenny face.
Compact crying Lenny · A smaller, quick crying Lenny.
Dramatic crying Lenny · Lenny face fully breaking down.
Double-tear Lenny · Lenny face crying with two tears.
Happy and relieved tears
Crying from joy, relief or being moved — the same tears, a different reason.
Happy tears · Crying from joy, not sadness.
Touched-to-tears · Moved enough to cry happily.
Relieved tears · Crying from sudden relief.
Grateful tears · Crying while thanking someone.
Warm happy cry · A soft, grateful kind of crying.
Joyful sobbing · Crying from pure happiness.
Laughing through tears · Happy-crying while smiling.
Choked-up happy · Too moved to speak, tearing up.
Loving happy tears · Crying from love or affection.
Shy happy tears · A little embarrassed but genuinely happy.
Crying vs sobbing vs crying Lenny face
A plain crying kaomoji like (;_;) shows a single welling tear with no extra motion. A sobbing kaomoji scrunches the whole face or streams tears down both sides, like (≧﹏≦), to show a harder cry. A crying Lenny face reuses the same combining marks ( ͡ ͜) as the classic ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) meme, just with teary T or ಥ eyes instead of the smug look.
Character
Code point
Unicode block
Role in crying kaomoji
T
U+0054
Basic Latin
Teary, squinting eye
ಥ
U+0CA5
Kannada
Round watery eye (as ಥ_ಥ)
﹏
U+FE4F
CJK Compatibility Forms
Wavy streaming-tears line (as ≧﹏≦)
益
U+76CA
CJK Unified Ideographs
Frustrated/angry marker in angry-crying faces
͡
U+0361
Combining Diacritical Marks
Lenny-style eyebrow
ʖ
U+0296
IPA Extensions
Lenny-style nose and mouth
Example messages
“(;_;) ok that actually got to me”
“(≧﹏≦) nooo why would you send that”
“( ͡T ͜ʖ ͡T) this show is destroying me”
Do crying kaomoji work on iPhone, Android and Discord?
We have not published a per-device test table for these faces yet, so we do not claim how each one renders on iPhone, Android, Windows or Discord. Faces built from common symbols such as T ; ಥ usually display on current phones; the combining marks in the Lenny-style faces can space differently between fonts. Copy a face and paste it where you plan to use it to check.
Submit a crying kaomoji
Have a face we are missing? Search “crying” on the Kaomojix home page and use “Suggest a kaomoji”. Suggestions are reviewed before they appear, and we do not show made-up copy counters. If the reaction you are after is closer to startled than sad, the shocked kaomoji page covers that instead.
FAQ
What is the crying kaomoji?
(;_;) is a simple, classic crying kaomoji: welling eyes with a plain mouth. Add streaming tears like (≧﹏≦) for a harder, more dramatic cry.
What does T_T mean in text?
T_T represents two eyes squeezed shut with tears, read as crying or being upset — one of the most recognizable crying kaomoji outside Japan.
What does ( ͡T ͜ʖ ͡T) mean?
It is a crying version of the Lenny face, built from the same combining marks as ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), but with teary T eyes reading as sad or overwhelmed rather than smug.
More kaomoji by mood
Crying is one entry point in the Kaomojix emotion filter. Other starting points include shocked faces for sudden surprise, smug faces for a confident Lenny-style look, and sleepy faces for low-energy moments — or filter the full library by cute, happy, love and sad on the kaomoji by emotion hub.
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