U+1F62D · emoji since 2010
The loudly crying face is full volume emotion. It can be real sadness, but most of the time it's overwhelm in any direction: something is too funny, too cute, too kind, or too unfair.
That flexibility made it one of the most used emoji anywhere. A puppy photo, a canceled flight, and a surprise gift can all earn 😭, and somehow everyone knows exactly which feeling you mean.
In texting, 😭 does not carry a widely used hidden or slang meaning, so you can usually take it at face value. People send it just as it looks, to add a little visual touch or set the mood of a message. Only a handful of emoji have a separate texting code, and 😭 is not really one of them.
Its official Unicode name is the Loudly Crying emoji. In everyday chat most people just call it the loudly crying emoji or describe what it shows. Copy and paste it from the button at the top of this page.
The 😭 leads off a short phrase, and the rest of the words are written in cipher, every letter disguised as another emoji. Tap decipher to reveal the whole line.
Or make your own cipher in the translator.