A yellow face with big teary eyes and a slightly open mouth. The tears are at the bottom of the eyes and ready to fall or become a tear flow. Design is similar to 🥺 Pleading Face and 🥲 Smiling Face which could also be used in a similar context. Can be used to indicate a range of emotions including pride, gratitude, sadness, anger, and fear.
Face Holding Back Tears emoji was added to Emoji 14.0 in 2021.
A holding back tears emoji rather than depicting a face whose tears have fully erupted. Conveys the struggle to not cry and hold the 💧 tears. People nearly cry at funerals, confronting someone important to them, at sad movies, or when they are proud of someone.
| Category | 😃 Smileys & Emotion |
| Subgroup | Face concerned |
| Codepoints | 1F979 |
| HTML hex | 🥹 |
| HTML dec | 🥹 |
| URL escape code | %F0%9F%A5%B9 |
| Punycode | xn--ss9h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | f0 9f a5 b9 |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \ud83e\udd79 |
| C, C++, Python | \U0001f979 |
| CSS | \01F979 |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{1F979} |
| Perl | \x{1F979} |
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