What does 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears mean?
Eyes welling up and mouth trembling, this face is trying hard not to cry. Most often the tears are happy ones: pride, gratitude, admiration or being deeply moved by an act of kindness. It also works for overwhelming cuteness. Compared with 🥲, it feels more sincere and less ironic, and compared with 😭, it is still just about holding it together.
🥹 Face Holding Back Tears is an emoji from the Smileys & Emotion category (concerned faces), added in Emoji 14.0 in 2021. People use it in messages about admiration, aww, cry, embarrassed, feelings and grateful.
Example messages
🥹 Face Holding Back Tears on Apple, Google, Microsoft & more
The code is the same everywhere, but every company draws its own artwork. This is how Face Holding Back Tears looks on each platform.
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Face Holding Back Tears emoji: questions & answers
How do I copy and paste the Face Holding Back Tears emoji?
Press the Copy button at the top of this page and 🥹 is copied to your clipboard. Then paste it anywhere with Ctrl+V, Cmd+V or a long press on your phone. In Slack, Discord and GitHub you can also type the shortcode :face_holding_back_tears:.
When was the Face Holding Back Tears emoji added?
🥹 Face Holding Back Tears was added in Emoji 14.0, released in 2021. It is supported on all current versions of iOS, Android, Windows and macOS.
Why does 🥹 look different on my phone?
Every platform draws its own artwork for Face Holding Back Tears. The underlying code (U+1F979) is the same everywhere, so the person you send it to always gets the same emoji, just in their device’s style. Compare the designs in the platform section above.