A face full-on bawling with tears spraying out on both sides. The ｡･ﾟ･ patterns flanking the face are the kaomoji convention for tear droplets — small full-width period, a Japanese middle-dot, and a half-width Japanese-style apostrophe combine to suggest splashing tears. Inside the face, ﾉ on the left is an arm thrown up, Д is the wide open crying mouth (a Cyrillic letter repurposed for its dramatic shape), and ｀ closes the right side.
The (ﾉД｀) face core is one of the most iconic “crying out loud” kaomoji on the Japanese internet, in continuous use since the early 2000s on 2chan-era message boards. The Д mouth reads as a wide-open wail. Surrounding it with tear-droplets on both sides amplifies the effect from “crying” to “sobbing uncontrollably.”
Use it for moments that genuinely warrant big sad energy: pet-loss posts, the saddest TikTok edits, fic recommendations that destroyed you. It is also used hyperbolically for funny-sad complaints (“my favorite ramen shop closed ｡･ﾟ･(ﾉД｀)･ﾟ･｡”). On Discord it works in venting channels; on Twitter/X it pairs with both genuine and ironic sad posts.
In Japanese the matching expression is わーんとなく (wān to naku — wailing) or なきわめく (nakiwameku — sobbing loudly). Pair with phrases like つらい (‘tsurai’ — painful), なぜ？ (‘naze?’ — “why?”), or もうむり (‘mou muri’ — “I can’t anymore”).