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U+1F979 CHARACTER

FACE HOLDING BACK TEARS

Quick Facts

Unicode Name FACE HOLDING BACK TEARS
Code Point U+1F979
Decimal Value 129401
General Category Other Symbol (So) →
Unicode Block Supplemental Symbols and Pictographs →
Script Common →
Unicode Version Unicode 14.0 →
Unicode Plane Supplementary Multilingual Plane (SMP)

Byte Encodings

UTF-8 4 bytes F0 9F A5 B9
UTF-16 Surrogate Pair D83E DD79
High: U+D83E (\uD83E) Low: U+DD79 (\uDD79)
UTF-32 4 bytes 0001F979
UTF-16BE / LE Byte Order
BE: D8 3E DD 79 LE: 3E D8 79 DD
UTF-32BE / LE Byte Order
BE: 00 01 F9 79 LE: 79 F9 01 00

Developer Code Escapes

HTML Decimal 🥹
HTML Hexadecimal 🥹
HTML Named Entity None
CSS Escape \01F979
JavaScript (ES6) \u{1F979}
JavaScript (UTF-16) \uD83E\uDD79
JSON Escape \uD83E\uDD79
Python \U0001F979
PHP "\u{1F979}"
Java "\uD83E\uDD79"
C / C++ "\U0001F979"
Rust '\u{1f979}'
URL Percent-Encoded %F0%9F%A5%B9

Normalization & Decomposition

Combining Class 0Not Reordered (Spacing)
Decomposition None (Canonical / Precomposed Base)
NFC / NFD Forms Stable under all Unicode normalization forms (NFC, NFD, NFKC, NFKD).

Bidirectional Properties

Bidi Class ONOther Neutral
Bidi Mirrored No

Font Specimen & Rendering

Visual rendering of U+1F979 across standard system font stacks. Rendering fidelity depends on installed OS font glyph coverage.

Sans-Serif System UI, Inter, Arial
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Context: A 🥹 Z 123
Serif Georgia, Times, Cambria
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Context: A 🥹 Z 123
Monospace Consolas, SF Mono, Courier
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Context: A 🥹 Z 123
System Default Operating System Glyph Fallback
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Context: A 🥹 Z 123

Names & Aliases

Official Name FACE HOLDING BACK TEARS

The normative, immutable character identifier in the Unicode Character Database.

Identifier U+1F979

Related Characters & Collections

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Emoji Equivalent Participates in emoji sequences as FACE HOLDING BACK TEARS.
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Curated Symbol Collection Curated in CopyCharacter's FACE HOLDING BACK TEARS symbol library.
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