A Japanese-originated emoticon that indicates you are sad about something. In many anime series their characters are very kawaii and make tons of faces like this. It's a version of the all famous: ">.<" It is typically used on messenger-related programs; chatrooms; BEBO; & many other RPGrelated sites.
<Person1>: I gotta go babes.
<Person2>: >A< Bye bye hunny.
See >a<, >.<, sad, emoticon, japanese, cute, kawaii