🥹
🥹 Emoji Meaning
The 🥹 emoji, officially called "Face Holding Back Tears," generally conveys a mix of relief, gratitude, pride, and other overwhelming positive emotions that are just shy of causing happy tears. It can also represent a slightly sad but heartwarming feeling. Here are some of its most popular meanings:
- Touched: Feeling deeply moved by a kind gesture, a sentimental story, or a beautiful moment.
- Proud: Experiencing immense pride, often in someone else's accomplishment, like a child's graduation or a friend's success.
- Grateful: Feeling overwhelmingly thankful for something or someone.
- Relieved: Expressing relief after a stressful situation or close call.
- Happy but slightly sad: A bittersweet feeling, like the end of a cherished experience.
- Holding back tears (literally): Sometimes used literally to depict physically holding back tears of either sadness or joy.
- I'm not crying, you're crying: Used humorously to express being moved to near tears while denying actually crying.
- Passive aggressive: Can occasionally be used sarcastically or passive-aggressively to indicate annoyance while feigning politeness. For example, replying with 🥹 to an irritating request.
The context of the conversation is key to understanding the specific nuance of the 🥹 emoji.
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Face Holding Back Tears Emoji Images
Here is how Face Holding Back Tears emoji looks like on iPhone, Android, Facebook, Messenger and X:
Face-Concerned Related Emoji
Here is a list of other emojis from the Smileys & Emotion category, Face-Concerned subcategory: