face holding back tears 🥹 Meaning & Copy
Use face holding back tears 🥹 Anywhere
To use the face holding back tears emoji (🥹), simply click the button above. It will be automatically copied to your clipboard.
What does 🥹 face holding back tears Mean?
The face holding back tears 🥹 is emotion at the brink — touched, proud, grateful, or about to cry from something beautiful. Unlike 😭's open flood, 🥹 is the trembling moment before: "my little brother graduated today 🥹".
- 💡General Use: face holding back tears
- 📱Social Media: Instagram, TikTok, X
Cultural Meaning & Social Media Tips
Released in 2022, it was quickly adopted for wholesome pride and gratitude posts, fan moments and pet content. Watch the mix-up: some use it for "puppy eyes begging" like 🥺 — the intended reading is being moved, and context is what separates them.
How 🥹 Looks on Different Platforms
Emoji designs vary slightly between systems. Here is how the face holding back tears emoji is rendered on major platforms like Apple, Google, and WhatsApp.
*Images come from open-licensed emoji sets (Twemoji CC BY 4.0, Noto Apache 2.0, OpenMoji CC BY-SA 4.0). Apple and WhatsApp sets are proprietary and cannot be hosted; the "Your Device" card shows your own OS emoji font — on iPhone/Mac that is the Apple design. Click any card to copy the emoji.
When to Use face holding back tears?
Social Media
Just posted a new photo! 🥹
Messaging
Hey, check this out 🥹
Reaction
Wow, that's amazing! 🥹
Status
Feeling 🥹 today
How to Type face holding back tears on Keyboard?
Windows 10/11 Shortcut
- Windows Key
- . (period)
- Type "face holding back tears"
- Select 🥹
Mac (Macbook) Shortcut
- Control + Command + Space
- Search "face holding back tears"
- Select 🥹
face holding back tears HTML & CSS Codes
| Property | Value / Code | Copy |
|---|---|---|
| Unicode Name | face holding back tears | |
| Unicode Code | U+1F979 | |
| HTML Entity | 🥹 | |
| HTML Hex | 🥹 | |
| CSS Content | \01F979 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F979} | |
| Emoji Version | Emoji 14.0 | |
| Year Added | 2021 | |
| Skin Tone Support | No |
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Graphics come from open-licensed sets: Twemoji (CC BY 4.0, Twitter/X), Noto Color Emoji (Apache 2.0, Google) and OpenMoji (CC BY-SA 4.0). Free to use with attribution.
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