🥹 Face Holding Back Tears
The 🥹 Face Holding Back Tears emoji (U+1F979) is part of the Smileys category, where it sits in the Face Sad group alongside 9 related emojis. It is tagged with the keywords tear, emotion, and cry, which captures how people actually use it: when someone wants to express tear in a message, caption, or comment, 🥹 is one of the glyphs they reach for, and it also carries connotations of emotion, and cry. Like every emoji, the Face Holding Back Tears renders slightly differently on Apple, Google, Samsung, and Microsoft devices because each platform draws its own artwork, but the underlying Unicode code point U+1F979 is identical everywhere, so the meaning travels even when the pixels change. On this page you can copy the 🥹 emoji with one click and paste it into any app that accepts Unicode text — chats, social posts, emails, and documents. Emojis most closely related to 🥹 in the Face Sad group include 😔 Pensive Face, 😕 Confused Face, 🙁 Slightly Frowning Face, ☹️ Frowning Face, 😞 Disappointed Face, 😟 Worried Face, and it is frequently combined with 😔 Pensive Face and 😕 Confused Face in messages. The Smileys category contains 89 emojis in total on Emoji Reference.