A yellow face with tears welling up at the bottom of its two large eyes.
May be used to express a range of emotions including sadness, anger, embarrassment, admiration, and gratitude.
? Smiling Face with Tear and ? Pleading Face can be used in some similar contexts.
Face Holding Back Tears was approved as part of Unicode 14.0 in 2021 and added to Emoji 14.0 in 2021.
U+1F979