🥹
Face Holding Back Tears Emoji
Smileys & Emotion
Meaning & usage
The face holding back tears emoji 🥹 is most often used to express crying, emotional, touched.
People reach for it to signal crying without typing a thing.
It looks slightly different on Apple, Google, Samsung, and other platforms, but the meaning stays the same everywhere.
Search keywords
cryingemotionaltouchedgratefulmovedhappy tearsproudgratitudecryangryresistsad
Names in other languages
| Korean | 눈물을, 참는, 얼굴 |
| Japanese | 涙をこらえた顔, うるうる, 嬉し泣き |
| Chinese (Simplified) | 忍住泪水, 哭泣, 喜极而泣 |
| Chinese (Traditional) | 強忍淚水的臉, 仰慕, 傷心 |
| Spanish | cara, aguantandose, las |
| French | visage, retenant, ses |
| German | gesicht, das, tranen |
| Portuguese | rosto, segurando, as |
| Italian | faccina, che, trattiene |
| Russian | еле, сдерживает, слезы |
Codepoints
U+1F979 — works everywhere Unicode emoji are supported: iOS, Android, Windows, macOS, and the web.