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Face Holding Back Tears Emoji

Smileys & Emotion • U+1F979 • Emoji 1.0 (2015)

Copy the Face Holding Back Tears emoji

Character🥹
HTML Entity🥹
Shortcode:face-holding-back-tears:
URL Encoded%F0%9F%A5%B9
CSS Escape\1F979

What does the Face Holding Back Tears emoji mean?

🥹 is the Face Holding Back Tears emoji from the Smileys & Emotion collection. Like other Unicode emojis, it provides a compact visual shorthand for face holding back tears that enhances tone and clarity in digital communication. Under the hood it lives at U+1F979 and debuted in Emoji 1.0 (2015). That code point is what lets you copy and paste it between apps without losing meaning. People reach for this smiley when they want to show feeling rather than describe it. It helps prevent misreads: a sentence that could sound cold becomes friendly once paired with this face, and a joke lands more clearly with the right expression attached. On Apple, Google, Samsung, Microsoft and other vendors the artwork differs slightly — colour palette, shading, and line weight change — but the core concept of face holding back tears stays identical, so the emoji remains universally readable. You can copy this emoji as the character itself (🥹), as an HTML entity (🥹), or as a shortcode (:face-holding-back-tears:) for platforms like Slack, Discord, and GitHub.

This detailed meaning was written by the UseEmoji editorial team after reviewing Unicode CLDR data and real-world usage. For quick identification, think of this emoji as shorthand for face holding back tears — it conveys that idea faster than words while keeping the message friendly and scannable.

How to use the Face Holding Back Tears emoji

  • In chat: Drop 🥹 into a sentence where you would normally write “face holding back tears” to add tone and visual interest.
  • On social media: Pair 🥹 with a keyword or hashtag to make captions more searchable and expressive.
  • In documents and code: Use the HTML entity 🥹 or shortcode :face-holding-back-tears: when the raw character may be escaped or unsupported.

Technical details & cross-platform notes

CategorySmileys & Emotion
Unicode code pointU+1F979
Introduced inEmoji 1.0 (2015)
Shortcode:face-holding-back-tears:
HTML entity🥹
Platform renderingApple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft each draw their own glyph. The meaning stays face holding back tears everywhere — only the art style changes.

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Frequently asked questions

What does Face Holding Back Tears mean?

🥹 is the Face Holding Back Tears emoji from the Smileys & Emotion collection. Like other Unicode emojis, it provides a compact visual shorthand for face holding back tears that enhances tone and clar...

What is the Unicode code point?

Encoded at U+1F979, introduced in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Official name: "Face Holding Back Tears".

How do I copy the Face Holding Back Tears emoji?

Click any Copy button above (Character, HTML Entity, Shortcode, CSS), then paste with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V. On mobile, long-press to paste.

Is the Face Holding Back Tears emoji free to use?

Yes. The Unicode character is free for personal and commercial copy. Vendor-specific artwork is copyrighted — copy the character, not the image file.

How is Face Holding Back Tears used in context?

It adds visual shorthand for face holding back tears in social posts, messages, and documents where an image conveys tone faster than words.

Does it look the same on every device?

Meaning is identical, but art differs: Apple, Google, Samsung and Microsoft each render 🥹 with their own style, colour, and shading.