Crying Cat 😿
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The crying cat emoji, depicting a sad cat face with tears flowing from its eyes. This emoji is used to express cat sadness, loneliness, or being upset. Common usage includes 'My cat looks lonely😿' 'Feeling sad😿' or 'No cat snuggling😿' Added in Unicode 6.0 in 2010. It's the cat version of the human 'crying face' emoji (U+1F622), used to express sadness, loneliness, distress, isolation, or regret.

The emoji is perfect for capturing cats' sad moments—when they're left alone, denied treats, kept in carriers, lose favorite toys, or feel jealous of new pets. On social media, users employ it to express their own emotions through cats—'sad,' 'lonely,' 'disappointed,' 'heartbroken,' or 'wish didn't come true.' It's used in posts about breakups, separations, pet loss (the heartbreaking experience of losing a beloved pet), homesickness, missing family during long business trips, and other sentimental feelings. The crying cat has also become a popular meme format on social media.