Copy and paste the Face Holding Back Tears emoji (🥹) in one click. Explore its Smileys & Emotion meaning, modern texting slang, chat examples, and Emoji 14.0 / Unicode 14.0 (2021) developer codes (U+1F979).
Unicode Definition: A yellow face with wide glossy eyes welling up with tears, slightly quivering mouth, and arched emotional eyebrows.
Context & Expression: Conveys intense gratitude, pride, emotional overwhelm, or holding back tears of joy and sentiment.
Context Tip: Pairing Face Holding Back Tears (🥹) with complementary emojis or tone indicators helps clarify intent across iMessage, WhatsApp, Discord, and Slack.
One of the most expressive additions from recent Unicode releases, capturing that exact lump-in-the-throat proud moment.
Combine 🥹 with complementary symbols or text labels to make social captions, Slack statuses, and threads immediately scannable.
See how the Face Holding Back Tears emoji looks in everyday mobile messaging.
Just watched your graduation ceremony stream, you made the whole family so proud.
Couldn't have done any of this without your support all these years 🥹
Love you so much, celebrating this weekend!
Apple depicts shimmering tear waterlines along the lower lid; Google shows large watery pupil reflections; Microsoft uses soft gradient color blending.
High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting
System Font: 'Apple Color Emoji'| Platform / Vendor | Glyph Preview | System Emoji Font | Rendering Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apple iOS / macOS | 🥹 | Apple Color Emoji | High-detail 3D vector/bitmap artwork with specular lighting |
| Google Android | 🥹 | Noto Color Emoji | Clean, rounded Noto Color Emoji vector geometry |
| Samsung One UI | 🥹 | Samsung Color Emoji | Vibrant high-contrast One UI color styling |
| Microsoft Windows | 🥹 | Segoe UI Emoji | Fluent Design 3D shading (renders 2-letter ISO codes for country flags) |
| X / Discord (Twemoji) | 🥹 | Twitter Color Emoji | Flat minimalist Twemoji SVG iconography |
Verified Unicode code points, HTML entities, CSS/JS escapes, UTF-8 bytes, and version data.
| Character | 🥹 |
|---|---|
| Official Unicode Name | Face Holding Back Tears |
| Unicode Code Point | U+1F979 |
| HTML Decimal Entity | 🥹 |
| HTML Hex Entity | 🥹 |
| CSS Escape Code | \01F979 |
| JavaScript / ES6 Escape | \u{1F979} |
| UTF-8 Hex Bytes | F0 9F A5 B9 |
| Shortcode (Slack / Discord / GitHub) | :face_holding_back_tears: |
| Emoji / Unicode Version | Emoji 14.0 / Unicode 14.0 (2021) |
| Category & Subgroup | Smileys & Emotion (face-concerned) |
Quick answers about meaning, OS rendering, and developer escape codes.
Conveys intense gratitude, pride, emotional overwhelm, or holding back tears of joy and sentiment. It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion category and was standardized in Emoji 14.0 / Unicode 14.0 (2021).
One of the most expressive additions from recent Unicode releases, capturing that exact lump-in-the-throat proud moment.
Click the "Copy Emoji (🥹)" button at the top of this page to copy the character to your clipboard, then press Ctrl+V (Windows/Linux), Cmd+V (macOS), or long-press Paste (iOS/Android) in any app.
The Unicode code point is U+1F979 (Emoji 14.0 / Unicode 14.0 (2021)). In HTML use 🥹 or 🥹; in CSS pseudo-elements use content: "\01F979"; in JavaScript use "\u{1F979}"; and in Slack/Discord/GitHub use shortcode :face_holding_back_tears:.
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