🥹️ Face holding back tears emoji

A face showing the struggle to hold back tears, with a pained expression and closed eyes.

This emoji represents emotional restraint and trying to be strong in difficult situations. Often used when someone is trying not to cry during sad movies, emotional moments, or when receiving bad news.

Related to other emotional faces like 😢 Crying face and 😭 Loudly crying face.

Could also be called Holding back tears, emotional face or trying not to cry emoji.

Other meanings

Emotional restraint, trying to be strong, suppressing sadness

Example Usage

I am trying so hard not to cry during this sad movie 🥹

Related emoji

Puppy-dog eyes emojis

• 🥺️ Pleading face

Sad emojis

• 🥲️ Smiling face with tear
• 😕️ Confused face
• 🫤️ Face with diagonal mouth
• 😟️ Worried face

Sad emojis

• 🙁️ Slightly frowning face
• ☹️ Frowning face

Visual description

A round, yellow face with tightly closed eyes, a slightly downturned mouth, and what appears to be a single tear drop being held back at the corner of one eye.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.