Face holding back tears

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๐Ÿ˜•๐Ÿซค๐Ÿ˜Ÿ๐Ÿ™โ˜น๏ธ๐Ÿ˜ฎ๐Ÿ˜ฏ๐Ÿ˜ฒ๐Ÿ˜ณ๐Ÿซช๐Ÿฅบ๐Ÿ˜ฆ๐Ÿ˜ง๐Ÿ˜จ๐Ÿ˜ฐ๐Ÿ˜ฅ๐Ÿ˜ข๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿ˜ฑ๐Ÿ˜–๐Ÿ˜ฃ๐Ÿ˜ž๐Ÿ˜“๐Ÿ˜ฉ๐Ÿ˜ซ๐Ÿฅฑ
Shortcode
:face_holding_back_tears:
Unicode
U+1F979
HTML
🥹
CSS
\1F979
JavaScript
"\u{1F979}"
URL
%F0%9F%A5%B9

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What ๐Ÿฅน means

Eyes welling up but holding it together: moved, proud, grateful or overwhelmed by sweetness.

Sent at heartfelt moments: a thoughtful gift, a friend's success, a baby photo, a kind message. It is usually happy emotion, unlike ๐Ÿ˜ข, and it often pairs with โ€œI'm not crying, you're crying.โ€

Facts

Face holding back tears ๐Ÿฅน is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face concerned. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 14.0, released in 2021. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :face_holding_back_tears:. People also look for it with words like โ€œadmirationโ€, โ€œawwโ€, โ€œbackโ€, or โ€œcryโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2021Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 14.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. face holding back tears, Google (Noto) design from 20212021
  2. face holding back tears, Google (Noto) design from 20262026

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. face holding back tears, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20222022
  2. face holding back tears, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20232023

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion ยท Emoji 14.0