ㅠㅠ (yuyu)

What it means

1. 1.

   Crying — the Hangul vowel ㅠ read as a pictogram of a face with tears running down. Used for real disappointment and for very small ones alike.

Examples with translations

• 오늘도 야근이야 ㅠㅠ

  Working late again 😭

• 표 다 팔렸대 ㅜㅜ

  Tickets are all gone 😢

Where it comes from

Purely visual, like Japanese 草: the two descending strokes of ㅠ look like tears. ㅜ is the same idea with a single stream.

Other forms

Romanised as:

yuyu

Spellings and variants:

ㅜㅜ, ㅠㅜ