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Emoji meaning and copy
🥹 Face Holding Back Tears Emoji Meaning
The holding back tears emoji expresses being deeply moved, grateful, proud, or close to crying.
What does 🥹 mean?
The holding back tears emoji expresses being deeply moved, grateful, proud, or close to crying.
It can signal happy emotion or quiet sadness. The surrounding message usually makes the direction clear.
- Best for
- Respond to a thoughtful gesture, Show tender gratitude, React to a proud or emotional moment
- Search terms
- soft, emotional, moved, tears
- Kitchen role
- Base emoji
How to use 🥹
Copy a complete reaction, or use the examples to judge the tone.
I was not expecting that 🥹
This is exactly how I feel 🥹
Sending the same energy back 🥹
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Technical details
The identity, encoding, and search information used by this site.
- Name
- Face Holding Back Tears
- Category
- Faces
- Glyph
- 🥹
- Code point
- U+1F979
- Code point count
- 1
- Kitchen role
- Base emoji
- Keywords
- soft, emotional, moved, tears
- Page slug
- holding-back-tears
- Compatible mixes
- 25
Mix 🥹 into a new reaction
Use a selected combination when the standard emoji is not specific enough.
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Questions about 🥹
What does the 🥹 emoji mean?
The holding back tears emoji expresses being deeply moved, grateful, proud, or close to crying.
When should I use the Face Holding Back Tears emoji?
Respond to a thoughtful gesture. Show tender gratitude. React to a proud or emotional moment.
How do I copy the 🥹 emoji?
Use either copy button on this page, then paste the emoji into a message, caption, bio, or document.
Can I use 🥹 in Emoji Kitchen?
Yes. Open one of the compatible mixes on this page to combine 🥹 with another supported emoji.