It is also known as the holding back tears emoji and teary eyes emoji. 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears is an emoji from the Smileys & Emotion category. Its Unicode code point is U+1F979 and it was released in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Press Copy to paste it anywhere.
What does 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears mean?
The 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears emoji belongs to the concerned group of the Smileys & Emotion category. You will see it in chats and captions related to admiration, aww, back, cry and embarrassed. Face Holding Back Tears has been available since Emoji 14.0 (2021), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :face_holding_back_tears: to insert it.
Face Holding Back Tears emoji codes
| Emoji | 🥹 |
|---|---|
| Unicode | U+1F979 |
| HTML entity (decimal) | 🥹 |
| HTML entity (hex) | 🥹 |
| CSS | \1F979 |
| JavaScript | \u{1F979} |
| Python | \U0001F979 |
| URL-encoded | %F0%9F%A5%B9 |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A5 B9 |
| Shortcode | :face_holding_back_tears: |
How to type 🥹 on your keyboard
- Windows: press Win + . and search for “face holding back tears”.
- Mac: press Control + Command + Space and search for “face holding back tears”.
- iPhone / Android: open the emoji keyboard and search “back”.
- HTML: write
🥹in your page source. - Anywhere: use the Copy button above, then paste.
Face Holding Back Tears keywords
- admiration
- aww
- back
- cry
- embarrassed
- face
- feelings
- grateful
- gratitude
- holding
- joy
- please
- proud
- resist
- sad
- tears
Frequently asked questions
What does 🥹 mean?
The 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears emoji belongs to the concerned group of the Smileys & Emotion category. You will see it in chats and captions related to admiration, aww, back, cry and embarrassed. Face Holding Back Tears has been available since Emoji 14.0 (2021), so it displays on almost all current devices. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can type :face_holding_back_tears: to insert it.
What is the 🥹 emoji called?
Its official Unicode name is Face Holding Back Tears, but people also call it the holding back tears emoji and teary eyes emoji.
How do I copy and paste the Face Holding Back Tears emoji?
Press the Copy button above (or click the 🥹 emoji) to copy it to your clipboard, then paste it with Ctrl + V on Windows, Cmd + V on Mac, or long-press → Paste on iPhone and Android.
When was 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears added to Unicode?
Face Holding Back Tears was released as part of Emoji 14.0 in 2021.
Related Concerned emojis
Sources
Name, code point, category and keywords: Unicode® Emoji 17.0 and Unicode CLDR.