Face Holding Back Tears emoji
Type :face_holding_back_tears: · Smileys & emotion
Unicode name Face Holding Back Tears · added in Emoji 14.0, 2021
What 🥹 means
Holding back tears: touched, proud, overwhelmed by something sweet. It arrived in 2022 and immediately took the "this is so lovely I might cry" slot off 🥺.
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Shortcodes
:face_holding_back_tears: :watery_eyes: Search terms
Also found by searching admiration, aww, back, cry, embarrassed, face.
🥹 in HTML, CSS and code
Face Holding Back Tears is a single codepoint, so any of these forms produces the same character.
- Unicode
- U+1F979
- HTML
- 🥹
- JavaScript
- '\u{1F979}'
- CSS content
- "\1F979"
- Python
- '\U0001F979'
- URL-encoded
- %F0%9F%A5%B9
Related emojis
:smiling_face_with_tear: 😭 :loudly_crying_face: 🥺 :pleading: 😢 :cry: 😹 :joy_cat: 😿 :crying_cat: 🤣 :rofl: 😂 :joy: 🫠 :melt: 😔 :pensive: All smileys & emotion shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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