🥹️ Face holding back tears emoji
HTML
🥹
Unicode
U+1F979
What is 🥹️ called?
🥹️ is called the Face holding back tears emoji.
Often called the holding-back-tears face, teary-eyed face or moved-to-tears face. The tears can come from positive or negative emotion.
What does 🥹️ mean?
The face holding back tears emoji expresses being deeply moved while trying not to cry. Tears pool in its eyes, allowing pride, gratitude, joy, sadness, or emotional restraint to coexist.
Unlike 😢 Crying face and 😭 Loudly crying face, the tears have not fully fallen. Use 🥹 for a touching tribute, proud moment, heartfelt thanks, or staying composed through difficult news.
Other meanings
It can mean “I am fine” while emotional, resisting a cry, feeling overwhelmed by kindness, or being embarrassed by strong feelings.
Example Usage
They included my grandmother’s song in the ceremony 🥹
I am so proud of how far you have come 🥹
More details
Its Unicode code point is U+1F979, and it was introduced in Emoji 14.0. The pooled tears distinguish it from smiling face with tear and from faces with falling tears.
Visual description
A yellow face has watery, glossy eyes with tears gathered along the lower lids, raised brows, and a small compressed smile or trembling mouth.
Platforms vary whether the tears visibly bulge and whether the expression looks proud, grateful, or sad.
⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.
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