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Face holding back tears

  • crying
  • tears of joy
  • embarrassed
  • sadness
  • face
  • holding
U+1F979

The face holding back tears emoji — Unicode name “face holding back tears” — belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group on EmojiAll. You will most often meet it in messages about crying, tears of joy and embarrassed. The positivity score for this emoji is 28 out of 100, inside the Negative range.

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1. Face holding back tears emoji attributes

Symbol
🥹
Name
Face holding back tears
English name
face holding back tears
Unicode code point
U+1F979
HTML entity
🥹
Decimal
🥹
Category
Smileys & Emotion›Sad & Crying
Keywords
crying, tears of joy, embarrassed, sadness, face, holding
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Size
Background
512 × 512 PNG · transparent background

2. Face holding back tears emoji meaning

The face holding back tears emoji is one of the 18 symbols collected in the Sad & Crying subgroup of Smileys & Emotion. It signals crying, tears of joy and embarrassed, which is why it works as a shorthand in short messages. Because the meaning is narrow, it rarely causes confusion in mixed-language chats.

In everyday chat, the face holding back tears (🥹) usually appears alongside words about crying, tears of joy and embarrassed. A few words of text make the intent clearer than the symbol on its own.

3. Face holding back tears emoji sentiment

Negative
28 / 100

Scored 28 out of 100, this emoji sits in the Negative range. It works best when the surrounding text already explains what is wrong.

A higher score means a more positive feeling; scores near 50 are neutral.

4. Face holding back tears emoji examples

  • 1Congrats on the new job 🥹
  • 2Sending good vibes your way 🥹
  • 3Mood for the rest of the week 🥹

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