A cat face with a sad expression and a single tear falling from one eye. A cat variant of 😢 Crying Face, though the placement of the tear in WhatsApp's design more closely resembles 😥 Sad but Relieved Face.

Most platforms depict a yellow or orange cat, often with tabby markings, though Huawei uses orange-and-white fur and Honor has tricolor calico-like coloring. Early Samsung designs depicted a gray cat, as did LG before its emoji set was discontinued.

This emoji predates the inclusion and standardization of emojis within Unicode. It was first added to early Japanese emoji keyboards by au by KDDI in 2003 as part of a broader group of cat-face emojis depicting different emotional expressions, a lineage that directly resulted in the unique range of cat face emojis available today.

Crying Cat was approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010 under the name "Crying Cat Face" and added to Emoji 1.0 in 2015.