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🥹 Face Holding Back Tears Emoji

The 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears emoji conveys profound gratitude, emotional pride, being touched, or fighting off tears of joy.

QUICK FACTS
Official name
Face Holding Back Tears
Category
Smileys & Emotion
Subcategory
Face Concerned
Unicode
U+1F979
Emoji version
Emoji 14.0
Unicode version
17.0

What Does Mean?

The 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears emoji represents experiencing an emotion so beautiful, touching, or overwhelming that tears are forming in your eyes. It is the signature emoji for wholesome moments, witnessing a friend's milestone, receiving an unexpected compliment, or feeling proud of someone you care about.

Tone
TouchedProudGratefulOverwhelmedWholesome
Quick Meaning

The 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears emoji conveys profound gratitude, emotional pride, being touched, or fighting off tears of joy.

Use Cases

How People Use 🥹

Common conversational contexts and messaging situations.

Celebrating a loved one's graduation, wedding, or big promotion

Celebrating a loved one's graduation, wedding, or big promotion.

Expressing gratitude for heartfelt emotional support

Expressing gratitude for heartfelt emotional support.

Reacting to an inspiring or touching story

Reacting to an inspiring or touching story.

Real Messages

🥹 Emoji Examples

Realistic message examples demonstrating natural placement for 🥹.

“Look at how proud your parents are 🥹”

“I cannot believe you remembered my favorite childhood snack 🥹”

“Seeing the whole team support each other makes me so happy 🥹”

“You did it! So incredibly proud of you 🥹”

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Lookup Data

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Official Name

Face Holding Back Tears

Subcategory: Face Concerned

Aliases & Common Names

  • happy tears
  • proud tears
  • holding back tears
  • welling up

Keywords & Search Terms

  • face holding back tears
  • proud
  • grateful
  • touched
  • wholesome
  • welling up
  • happy tears
  • emotional
  • pride
Developer Reference

🥹 Emoji Codes

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FormatCode ValueAction
Unicode
U+1F979
Code points
U+1F979
UTF-8 bytes
0xF0 0x9F 0xA5 0xB9
UTF-16
\uD83E\uDD79
HTML decimal entity
🥹
HTML hexadecimal entity
🥹
JavaScript escape
\u{1F979}
CSS escape
\1F979
Python string
\U0001F979
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Microsoft Fluent

MIT License
Face Holding Back Tears emoji in Microsoft Fluent style

Google Noto

SIL Open Font License 1.1
Face Holding Back Tears emoji in Google Noto style

Twemoji

CC BY 4.0
Face Holding Back Tears emoji in Twemoji style

OpenMoji

CC BY-SA 4.0
Face Holding Back Tears emoji in OpenMoji style

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The 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears emoji conveys profound gratitude, emotional pride, being touched, or fighting off tears of joy.