Emojion🥹 face holding back tears
Meaning
Widely used for holding back tears from joy, gratitude, or pride. Also covers begging, bittersweet feelings, and wholesome 'aww' moments.
Keywords: admiration, aww, back, cry, embarrassed, face, feelings, grateful, gratitude, holding, joy, please, proud, resist, sad, tears
How it's used around the world
JapanJapanese CLDR keywords explicitly include 懇願 (pleading), so 🥹 is often used to beg or plead in Japan — a role filled mainly by 🥺 in English-speaking contexts.
💡 Did you know?
🥹 won Most Popular New Emoji at the 2022 絵文字辞典サイト — chosen by 絵文字辞典サイト after analyzing 463 million+ tweets since its Unicode 14.0 debut in 2021.
💡 Did you know?
In English 🥹 usually reads as 'I'm touched,' but in Japanese it strongly implies pleading too — so the same emoji can be misread depending on which side of the culture you're on.
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