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Face Holding Back Tears emoji 🥹

🥹 is the Face Holding Back Tears emoji, in Smileys & People. It arrived in Emoji 14.0 (2021). People look for it with words like touched, gratitude, cry.

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:face_holding_back_tears:

Paste it with Ctrl + V, or Command + V on a Mac.

What 🥹 means

Holding back tears from being moved, proud, grateful or sad.

Every code for 🥹

NameFace Holding Back Tears
Shortcodes:face_holding_back_tears:
CategorySmileys & People
Emoji versionEmoji 14.0 (2021)
Keywordstouched, gratitude, cry
Code pointsU+1F979
HTML🥹
CSS\1F979
JavaScript\u{1F979}
Python\U0001f979
UTF-8 bytesF0 9F A5 B9
URL encoded%F0%9F%A5%B9

How to type 🥹

Without copying it, on every device.

WhereHow
Chrome, any websiteWith Use Emoji, type :face_holding_back_tears: in any text box and it turns into 🥹.
WindowsPress Windows + . (period) to open the emoji panel, type "face holding back tears" and press Enter.
MacPress Control + Command + Space (or fn / Globe + E), type "face holding back tears" and press Return.
ChromebookPress Search + Shift + Space to open the emoji picker and type "face holding back tears".
iPhone and AndroidSwitch to the emoji keyboard and search for "face holding back tears".
HTMLWrite 🥹 in the page source.

Questions

About 🥹

Short answers to the questions people ask most.

What does 🥹 mean?
Holding back tears from being moved, proud, grateful or sad.
What is the shortcode for 🥹?
:face_holding_back_tears:. With Use Emoji it works in any text box in Chrome, on the sites you turn it on for. Slack, Discord and GitHub use similar codes, so it often works there too.
How do I type 🥹 on Windows or Mac?
On Windows press Windows + . (period), on a Mac Control + Command + Space, then type "face holding back tears". On a Chromebook press Search + Shift + Space.
What is the Unicode for 🥹?
U+1F979, added in Emoji 14.0 (2021). In HTML write 🥹, in CSS "\1F979", and in JavaScript "\u{1F979}".

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