U+1F979 "🥹" Face Holding Back Tears Unicode Character
Unicode Version 17.0
🥹
U+1F979 "🥹" Face Holding Back Tears is a digital pictogram featuring a face with a slight frown, upturned eyebrows, and eyes glistening with unshed tears, often used to convey intense emotions such as overwhelming gratitude, bittersweet sadness, joy, or the act of struggling not to cry. Officially added to the Unicode Standard in 2021 as part of Emoji 14.0, it quickly became popular across messaging platforms for expressing heartfelt sincerity and vulnerability, especially in moments of sentimental relief or deep emotional resonance. The emoji’s design varies slightly across different platforms, but its core meaning of tender emotion remains universally recognized.
General Properties
| Code Point | U+1F979 |
| Version Added | 14.0 |
| Name | Face Holding Back Tears |
| Block | Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs |
| General Category | Other Symbol |
| Canonical Combining Class | Not Reordered |
| Bidirectional Class | Other Neutral |
Encodings
| HTML Decimal Encoding | 🥹 |
| HTML Hex Encoding | 🥹 |
| UTF-8 Encoding | 0xF0 0x9F 0xA5 0xB9 |
| UTF-16 Encoding | 0xD83E 0xDD79 |
| UTF-32 Encoding | 0x0001F979 |
| C/C++/Java Escape | \ud83e\udd79 |