Meaning
Touched, grateful or proud to the point of welling up. Softer than 😭.
Its official Unicode name is face holding back tears, filed under concerned in the smileys & emotion group. Keyboards find it when you search for “admiration”, “aww”, “back”, “cry”, “embarrassed”, “face”.
Mix 🥹 with another emoji
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face holding back tears + railway car- +
face holding back tears + pouting cat - +
face holding back tears + Pisces - +
face holding back tears + left-right arrow
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