A blushing crying bear. The ʕ ʔ are the standard bear-brackets. Inside, T characters on each side are crying eyes — the capital T with its downward stroke reads as a face streaming tears. The // marks on either side of the bear-mouth ᴥ are blush slashes — flushed cheeks. The combination of crying eyes + blushed cheeks gives the bear an overwhelmed, sad-and-embarrassed expression.
This kaomoji works because of how the T-eyes specifically code as “crying.” Unlike pointed-down eyes (•́ •̀) which read as concerned, the T is unambiguous — it has a vertical line representing a tear-streak. Combined with blush slashes, the bear is not just sad but moved to tears — overwhelmed by emotion.
Use it for moments of being touched-to-tears by something wholesome: a friend’s kindness, a tearjerker video, an emotional fanart. On Discord and Twitter/X it works as a reaction to heartwarming content. On TikTok comments it lands under “this made me cry happy tears” videos. The bear softens the cry — it feels less melodramatic than a human-face cry kaomoji.
In Japanese the matching mood is なきくま (naki-kuma — crying bear). Pair this kaomoji with phrases like かんどうした (‘I’m moved’), なみだでた (‘tears came’), or きゅんとした (‘my heart squeezed’).