Face Holding Back Tears
🥹 is holding back tears. It means being moved, grateful or proud — happy tears as much as sad ones.
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MovedIt reads as touched, grateful or proud — happy tears more than sad ones.DBEmoji editorial interpretationCommon uses
DBEmoji editorial interpretation- Feeling moved by a kind gesture or message
- Being proud of someone
- Reacting to something heartwarming
Technical details
Source: Unicode Consortium- Unicode name
- FACE HOLDING BACK TEARS
- CLDR short name
- face holding back tears
- Codepoint
- U+1F979
- Hex
- 1F979
- Emoji version
- 14.0
- Unicode version
- 14.0
- First released
- 2021
- Unicode group
- Smileys & Emotion
- Unicode subgroup
- face-concerned
- Status
- Recommended for General Interchange (RGI)
Data verified 2026-10-21 · Unicode Emoji 16.0 · How this data is built
GitHub shortcode
From GitHub's own emoji list (gemoji). Slack, Discord and other apps keep separate lists, so a code may differ there.
:face_holding_back_tears:Keywords
Source: Unicode CLDRadmiration · aww · back · cry · embarrassed · face · feelings · grateful · gratitude · holding · joy · please · proud · resist · sad · tears
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How it looks
Rendered from open-licensed emoji sets. Your device shows its own design. Microsoft Fluent Emoji (MIT)
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Microsoft Fluent UI Emoji — original artwork
Download Microsoft's official Fluent rendering of 🥹. SVG files are vector (scales to any size); the 3D PNG is 256×256.
Questions people ask
- What does the 🥹 face holding back tears emoji mean?
- 🥹 is holding back tears. It means being moved, grateful or proud — happy tears as much as sad ones.
- What is the Unicode codepoint for 🥹?
- U+1F979, named FACE HOLDING BACK TEARS in the Unicode Standard.
- When was the 🥹 face holding back tears emoji released?
- It was added in Emoji 14.0, published in 2021, alongside Unicode 14.0. Phones and computers show it once their system software supports that version; older devices may show an empty box instead.
- How do I type 🥹 on my phone or computer?
- On iPhone or Android, open the emoji keyboard and search for “face holding back tears”. On Windows, press Windows key + . (full stop); on a Mac, press Control + Command + Space, then search for the same word. You can also copy 🥹 from this page with one click.
- What is the shortcode for 🥹?
- On GitHub, type :face_holding_back_tears: and it turns into 🥹 — that code comes from GitHub's own emoji list. Slack, Discord and other apps keep their own shortcode lists; many codes match GitHub's, but check the app's emoji picker to be sure.