Crying Kaomoji (╥﹏╥)
Crying kaomoji — Japanese text faces. Tap to copy.
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How to use crying kaomoji
Crying kaomoji keep the tears in the eyes. ； — the fullwidth semicolon — is an eye with a drop falling from it, as in (´；ω；`); ಥ, a letter of the Kannada alphabet, is an eye brimming over, as in (ಥ﹏ಥ); and ╥ or T draw a stream running straight down: (╥_╥), (T_T). The mouth adds the rest — ﹏, the wavy low line, is a trembling lip.
Louder crying takes the tears off the face: ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡ throws drops to both sides, with Д, the Cyrillic capital de, as a mouth wide open, and .·´¯`(>▂<)´¯`·. draws two streams. Those run to eleven and fifteen characters; (T_T) and (;_;) are five, small enough for a reply or a display name. A short one reads as a mood, a long one as a reaction to what someone just said.
Questions
Why is a semicolon a tear?
Its dot is the eye and the tail under it is a drop on the way down. (;_;) uses the ordinary semicolon; (´；ω；`) uses ；, the fullwidth one, which is wider and takes as much room as a Japanese character.
What is ಥ?
A letter of the Kannada script, written in southern India — Unicode calls it Kannada letter tha. In a kaomoji only its shape matters: it reads as an eye welling up, so ಥ_ಥ and ಥ‿ಥ are holding back tears rather than sobbing.
Which one is the loudest?
The ones where the tears fly off the face: ｡ﾟ(ﾟ´Д｀ﾟ)ﾟ｡, with Д as a mouth open in a wail, and ｡ﾟ･（>﹏<）･ﾟ｡, with the eyes squeezed shut. (╥﹏╥) and (T_T) are the quiet kind — tears, but no sound.
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