Face Holding Back Tears Emoji
What does the Face Holding Back Tears emoji mean?
A face in plain yellow with large, watery eyes and a slightly open mouth, teetering on the verge of tears. The tears look ready to fall. It can convey a mix of feelings — anger, sadness, anxiety, or pain — and is also usually used to express gentle emotions like gratitude and heartfelt appreciation.
A round yellow face with wide, teary eyes and a small, bashful smile. Its eyebrows curve like parentheses and tilt downward. This emoji serves much the same purpose as the pleading face, so you can use it in similar situations.
Send it when youre asking for help, or to offer a heartfelt thanks in response to support or assistance.
Apple Name
- 🥹 Smiling Face Holding Back Tears
Unicode Name
- 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
Download the Face Holding Back Tears emoji
Vector file from the Noto Emoji set by Google, licence CC BY 4.0.
🥹 Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+1F979
Shortcodes
- works in Discord, Slack
For developers
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A5%B9 |
| Punycode | xn--ss9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | f0 9f a5 b9 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \ud83e\udd79 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f979 |
| CSS | \01F979 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F979} |
| Perl | \x{1F979} |
| HTML hex | 🥹 |
| HTML dec | 🥹 |
Tags: angry, cry, face holding back tears, proud, resist, sad, admiration, aww, back, embarrassed, face, feelings, grateful, gratitude, holding, joy, please
Category: Smileys & Emotion
Subgroup: Sad & worried