Face holding back tears emoji 🥹
Emoji 14.0 (2021) · U+1F979
What 🥹 means
Face holding back tears 🥹 goes with these words in Unicode's CLDR: admiration, aww, back, cry, embarrassed, face, feelings, grateful, gratitude, holding.
Those words also drive emoji search: try admiration or aww on your phone to find 🥹.
On the emoji keyboard, 🥹 sits with the worried and sad faces (27 emoji) inside smileys & emotion, which has 172 emoji, for example 😦 😧 😨 😰.
Will 🥹 show on my friend's phone?
🥹 is recent (Emoji 14.0, 2021). Your friends need a system update from 2022 or later to see it.
How to type 🥹
To find 🥹 quickly, type admiration into the emoji search.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type face holding back tears.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type face holding back tears in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type face holding back tears.
Codes for developers
A character counter sees 🥹 as one code point, U+1F979: 4 bytes in UTF-8 and a length of 2 in JavaScript.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F979 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🥹 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🥹 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F979"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F979} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%A5%B9 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A5 B9 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🥹 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | face holding back tears |
| Português | rosto segurando as lágrimas |
| Español | cara aguantándose las lágrimas |
| Italiano | faccina che trattiene le lacrime |
| Français | visage retenant ses larmes |
| Deutsch | Gesicht, das Tränen zurückhält |
| Türkçe | gözleri dolmuş yüz |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wajah menahan air mata |
| Polski | twarz powstrzymująca łzy |
| Русский | еле сдерживает слёзы |
| 日本語 | 涙をこらえた顔 |
| 한국어 | 눈물을 참는 얼굴 |
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All smileys & emotion emoji →Questions people ask
What does the face holding back tears emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🥹 "face holding back tears" and links it with admiration, aww, back, cry. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the worried and sad faces subgroup of smileys & emotion.
When was the face holding back tears emoji added?
In Emoji 14.0, released in 2021. Only phones and computers updated since 2022 show it; older ones may show a box.
How do I type the face holding back tears emoji?
To find 🥹 quickly, type admiration into the emoji search.