Face holding back tears
Emoji 14.0 ยท Smileys & Emotion ยท :face_holding_back_tears:
Also known as: admiration, aww, back, cry, embarrassed, face, feelings, grateful, gratitude, holding, joy, please, proud, resist, sad, tears
How it looks elsewhere
Twemoji 
Noto 
Fluent 
OpenMoji Copy as code
What Face holding back tears Means
People reach for ๐ฅน when they mean admiration, aww, back, cry, embarrassed and similar ideas. Searching Snagmoji for any of those words finds it.
Face holding back tears is one of the smileys & emotion emoji, alongside ๐ ๐ซค ๐ ๐ โน๏ธ and 21 more in the same family.
History & Platforms
Face holding back tears was added in 2021 as part of Emoji 14.0. It has artwork in Twemoji, Google's Noto, Microsoft's Fluent, OpenMoji. Apple, Samsung and WhatsApp draw it in their own styles, which is why the same emoji can look a little different from phone to phone.
Under the hood ๐ฅน is the single code point U+1F979, and on GitHub, Slack and most chat apps you can type it as :face_holding_back_tears:.
How To Use ๐ฅน
- Copy it: click the big emoji above, or the "Snag it" button.
- Chain it: on the main page, Shift+click emoji to build a string like ๐ฅน๐๐ซค and copy it all at once.
- Type it: in Slack, GitHub and Discord, type :face_holding_back_tears: and it converts. On Windows press Win+. and on Mac press Ctrl+Cmd+Space to open the system picker.
- Use it in code: the HTML entity, JavaScript and CSS escapes are in the "Copy as code" box above.