Face Holding Back Tears
The face holding back tears emoji represents a face holding back tears, often used to symbolize sadness, grief, or emotional restraint.
Exports at 24 × 24 px
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export const FaceHoldingBackTearsIcon = (props: React.SVGProps<SVGSVGElement>) => (
<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="24" height="24" viewBox="0 0 72 72" fill="none" stroke="currentColor" {...props}>
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</svg>
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What the Face Holding Back Tears icon means and where it's used, then how to install, style, label and license it.
The face holding back tears emoji represents a face holding back tears, often used to symbolize sadness, grief, or emotional restraint. It is part of the OpenMoji library, a popular set of emojis used in digital communication. The face holding back tears emoji is commonly used to express a sense of sadness or emotional pain.
In real-world applications, the face holding back tears emoji appears in various software and platforms, such as messaging apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger, social media platforms like Twitter and Instagram, and online forums like Reddit and Discord.
From a UX perspective, the face holding back tears emoji communicates sadness or emotional pain, helping users understand the tone and context of a message. It can be used to add a touch of empathy or understanding to a statement, making it a popular choice for expressing emotions.
Face Holding Back Tears is one of 4,481 icons in OpenMoji, made by OpenMoji and released under CC BY-SA 4.0. It is drawn on a 72 × 72 grid.
Sign in (it's free), then open Get icon, Install with shadcn CLI, and pick your package manager to copy the command. It adds FaceHoldingBackTearsIcon to components/icons/openmoji-face-holding-back-tears.tsx: one file, a size prop (24 by default) and every SVG prop, with no icon package.
Copy it as React (from Get icon, or the Code section): a typed FaceHoldingBackTearsIcon component you paste into your project, with no package to install. Only the icons you import reach your bundle. It works in Next.js and any React app.
Open Get icon, then Copy as code, and pick Vue, Svelte, Angular, Solid or Preact; the Code section shows each one too. Every version is one self-contained component with the SVG inside, and SVG and data URL copies are there for plain HTML and CSS.
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It's multicolor, so it keeps its own colors.
Set width and height on the component, or a class like size-6. It's drawn on a 72 × 72 grid, so it stays sharp at any size. Customize also sets the size it exports at, its padding and rotation.
Yes. It keeps its own colors in light and dark mode, so check it against both backgrounds. The icon is a vector, so it needs no separate dark asset.
Next to a visible label it's decoration: add aria-hidden="true" so screen readers skip it. Standing alone, as in an icon button, give the button a name instead, like aria-label="Face Holding Back Tears", so screen readers say what it does.
Yes. FaceHoldingBackTearsIcon passes every SVG prop to the svg element, so <FaceHoldingBackTearsIcon aria-hidden="true" /> works, and so do role="img" with aria-label, or a title child, when it carries meaning on its own.
Yes. Open Get icon, then Download file: SVG for code or design tools like Figma; PNG, WebP or JPEG at 512px; or an ICO favicon with 16, 32 and 48px inside. Each one uses what you set in Customize.
Yes, with conditions: CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit the author (OpenMoji), and icons you change must use the same license. The full terms are in the license, linked on this page.
Yes. CC BY-SA 4.0 asks you to credit OpenMoji, and icons you change must be shared under the same license.
Yes. Copying and downloading it is free, and the shadcn CLI install only needs a free account.
1 other library draws an icon called Face Holding Back Tears. The Other libraries section on this page shows each one, so you can compare them and open the one that fits your style.
Its tags are icon, emoji, sadness and empathy. Each tag page lists the icons that carry it from every library, which is the quickest way to find a match for Face Holding Back Tears in another set.
OpenMoji draws many icons in several styles: Light next to the default. Open the library and pick a style above the grid to see Face Holding Back Tears's siblings in it.
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