🔍
Home › Emoji Meanings › Face Holding Back Tears
Face Holding Back Tears Meaning
🥹
tap the emoji to copy it
Official Unicode name: Face Holding Back Tears (U+1F979)
What 🥹 officially means
Glossy eyes brimming with tears — moved, touched, barely keeping it together.
What 🥹 means in slang & texting
🥹 is the 'this is so precious' emoji: proud-parent energy, gratitude, wholesome overload. Unlike 😭 it's quiet emotion — the single tear you refuse to drop.
How to use it
React to touching moments, thank people sincerely, admire wholesome content.
Popular combos with 🥹
🥹🫶
🥹❤️
🥹✨
🥹👏