🥲 Smiling Face with Tear Emoji

Copy and paste the Smiling Face with Tear emoji (🥲) instantly. View its meaning in Smileys & Emotion, modern texting slang, chat examples, and Emoji 13.0 / Unicode 13.0 (2020) developer codes (U+1F972).

What Does the Smiling Face with Tear Emoji Mean?

Unicode Definition: Illustrates smiling face with tear (🥲), officially cataloged under Emoji 13.0 / Unicode 13.0 (2020) (U+1F972) in the "face-affection" subgroup. Depicts downward mouth curvature and emotive eye details conveying disappointment or grief.

Context & Expression: Expresses deep vulnerability, emotional pain, dramatic sadness, feeling overwhelmed, or offering sincere empathy.

Tone Tip: Smiling Face with Tear (🥲) bridges genuine sympathy and playful Gen-Z melodrama ("I'm crying because this is too cute/funny").

Modern Texting & Social Usage

Gen-Z texters often use 🥲 both genuinely for real grief and playfully for minor everyday tragedies (like finishing a favorite TV series, dropping food, or Monday alarms).

💡 Quick Usage Tip:

Combine 🥲 with complementary symbols or text labels to make social captions, Slack statuses, and threads immediately scannable.

Real-Life Chat Examples

See how the Smiling Face with Tear emoji looks in everyday mobile messaging.

Chloe

I just found out our favorite weekend bakery downtown is closing permanently.

You

No way... that was literally our favorite spot 🥲

Chloe

I know, so sad to see them go.

When to Use 🥲

Sharing sincere condolences, sympathy, or empathetic support with a friend.
Playfully expressing dramatic heartbreak over minor daily mishaps.
Reacting to bittersweet nostalgia or touching life milestones.

When to Avoid 🥲

Formal business rejection letters or legal document exchanges.
Situations where direct verbal support is more compassionate than an emoji.

CROSS-PLATFORM DISPLAY

How Smiling Face with Tear Looks Across Operating Systems & Fonts

Apple iOS renders 🥲 with smooth 3D gradients and glossy eye highlights; Google Android uses a vibrant flat-shaded vector style; Samsung One UI features highly expressive brow curves; Microsoft Windows uses a bold outlined Fluent aesthetic.

🥲

Apple iOS / macOS Rendering

High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting

System Font: 'Apple Color Emoji'

Platform / Vendor	Glyph Preview	System Emoji Font	Rendering Behavior
Apple iOS / macOS	🥲	`Apple Color Emoji`	High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting
Google Android	🥲	`Noto Color Emoji`	Clean, rounded Noto Color Emoji vector geometry
Samsung One UI	🥲	`Samsung Color Emoji`	Vibrant high-contrast One UI color styling
Microsoft Windows	🥲	`Segoe UI Emoji`	Fluent Design 3D shading (renders 2-letter ISO codes for country flags)
X / Discord (Twemoji)	🥲	`Twitter Color Emoji`	Flat minimalist Twemoji SVG iconography

Technical & Developer Specifications

Verified Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS/JS escapes, UTF-8 bytes, and version data.

Character	🥲
Official Unicode Name	Smiling Face with Tear
Unicode Code Point	`U+1F972`
HTML Decimal Entity	`🥲`
HTML Hex Entity	`🥲`
CSS Escape Code	`\01F972`
JavaScript / ES6 Escape	`\u{1F972}`
UTF-8 Hex Bytes	`F0 9F A5 B2`
Shortcode (Slack / Discord / GitHub)	`:smiling_face_with_tear:`
Emoji / Unicode Version	Emoji 13.0 / Unicode 13.0 (2020)
Category & Subgroup	Smileys & Emotion (face-affection)

Frequently Asked Questions About Smiling Face with Tear (🥲)

Quick answers about meaning, OS rendering, and developer escape codes.

What is the emotional and conversational meaning of Smiling Face with Tear (🥲)?

Expresses deep vulnerability, emotional pain, dramatic sadness, feeling overwhelmed, or offering sincere empathy. It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion category and was standardized in Emoji 13.0 / Unicode 13.0 (2020).

How is the Smiling Face with Tear emoji (🥲) used on TikTok, Instagram, and Discord?

Gen-Z texters often use 🥲 both genuinely for real grief and playfully for minor everyday tragedies (like finishing a favorite TV series, dropping food, or Monday alarms).

How do I copy and paste 🥲 on iPhone, Android, Mac, or Windows?

Click the "Copy Emoji (🥲)" button at the top of this page to copy the character to your clipboard, then press Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux), Cmd+V (macOS), or long-press Paste (iOS/Android) in any app.

What are the Unicode, HTML, CSS, and JS developer codes for Smiling Face with Tear?

The Unicode code point is U+1F972 (Emoji 13.0 / Unicode 13.0 (2020)). In HTML use 🥲 or 🥲; in CSS pseudo-elements use content: "\01F972"; in JavaScript use "\u{1F972}"; and in Slack/Discord/GitHub use shortcode :smiling_face_with_tear:.

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