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🥹Face Holding Back Tears Emoji
Tagged admiration, aww and back, 🥹 face holding back tears sits in Unicode's Concerned group inside Smileys & Emotion. It was introduced in Emoji 14.0 (2021) at U+1F979.
What 🥹 face holding back tears means
The largest face subgroup, running from mild confusion through to full panic. Most of it is not literal: 😭 is used for laughing and for being overwhelmed at least as much as for crying, and 🥺 pleading face, added in 2018, became a way to ask for things with performed helplessness rather than actual distress.
Unicode tags this one admiration, aww and back and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Concerned.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F979 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🥹 | |
| HTML decimal | 🥹 | |
| CSS | \1F979 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F979} | |
| Python | \U0001F979 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD79 | |
| Rust | \u{1f979} | |
| Swift | \u{1F979} | |
| PHP | \u{1F979} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A5%B9 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A5 B9 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD79 | |
| Base64 | 8J+luQ== | |
| Decimal | 129401 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 14.0 (2021) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🥹
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “face holding back tears”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “admiration”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f979and Enter. - HTML — paste
🥹.
How 🥹 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 🥹Apple
- 🥹Segoe
- 🥹Noto
- 🥹System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 🥹 face holding back tears emoji mean?+
🥹 is the face holding back tears emoji, tagged admiration, aww and back. The largest face subgroup, running from mild confusion through to full panic. Most of it is not literal: 😭 is used for laughing and for being overwhelmed at least as much as for crying, and 🥺 pleading face, added in 2018, became a way to ask for things with performed helplessness rather than actual distress.
What is the Unicode code for 🥹?+
face holding back tears is U+1F979. In HTML that is 🥹, in CSS \1F979, and in JavaScript \u{1F979}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🥹 emoji added?+
face holding back tears got its emoji presentation in Emoji 14.0 (2021). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Concerned in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Emoji 14.0 (2021)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🥹 face holding back tears.