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face holding back tears

A face holding back tears

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Code points: U+1F979
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Meaning

A face fighting back tears — deeply moved or emotional.

Face holding back tears — Approved as part of Emoji 14.0 in 2021.

In conversation

Overwhelming emotion: heartfelt moments, sad-but-beautiful scenes, gratitude.

Tone

Emotional and tender.

Common uses

being moved
emotional scenes
gratitude overload

Watch out

Intense — for everyday sweetness 🥺 is lighter.

Examples

that scene broke me 🥹
I'm so touched 🥹
thank you, truly 🥹

Also known as

face holding back tearsmoved to tearsemotional

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Emoji names around the world

English: face holding back tearsالعربية وجه يحبس دموعه español cara aguantándose las lágrimas português rosto segurando as lágrimas हिन्दी आंसू रोकता चेहरा Indonesia wajah menahan air mata

Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.

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sad frowning face

Quick facts

Code points: U+1F979
Unicode name: face holding back tears
Category: Smileys & EmotionConcerned faces
Unicode: 14.0 · 2021Emoji 14.0Unicode history
Keywords: admiration aww back cry embarrassed face feelings grateful gratitude holding joy please proud resist

Developer

Single code point

Unicode data

Code pointsU+1F979

Unicode nameface holding back tears

UTF-8F0 9F A5 B9

Shortcodes

Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack):face_holding_back_tears:

HTML & CSS

HTML (hex)🥹

HTML (decimal)🥹

CSS\1F979

Languages

JavaScript\u{1F979}

Python\U0001F979

Perl\x{1F979}

PHP / Ruby\u{1F979}

Encodings

Punycodexn--ss9h

URL escape code%F0%9F%A5%B9

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Noto Emoji — Licenses & attribution — **Noto Emoji**Google Fonts · SIL OFL 1.1

Twemoji — Licenses & attribution — **Twemoji**Twemoji project · CC BY 4.0

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