🥲Smiling face tear emoji

🥲 Smiling face with tear

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🥲 Emoji meaning

Smiling face with a tear, staying positive even in tough times.

Table of Contents

  1.  Meaning
  2.  Confused With
  3.  Emoji History
  4.  Similar Emojis
  5.  Platforms
  6.  Emoji Details
  7.  Comments

🥲 Meaning

The 🥲 emoji stands for smiling through the tough times and symbolizes trying to stay positive even in difficult moments. You are smiling through the pain instead of being truly happy. It shows the ability to hide true feelings behind a smile when dealing with problems or difficult times in life. This emoji is often used to express sympathy and understanding for the personal struggles of others. It reminds us that we are all human and sometimes use a smile as a shield to hide our true feelings.

Examples

  • I finally did it! 🥲
  • That was really touching. 🥲
  • Are you feeling better now? 🥲

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Commonly confused with

Same Emotion

Smiling face with tear
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Smiling face with smiling eyes

Smiling face with tear vs smiling face; both warmth and gratitude, tear can be missed at small size.

Emoji History

Development of the emoji in the Unicode lexicon

First included

The emoji “Smiling face with tear” was approved as part of Unicode 13.0 in 2020 and added to Emoji 13.0 .

In the release of Emoji 16.0 and Unicode 16.0 in 2024 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ face + glad + happy + joy + pain + smile + smiley

Keywords removed

- smiling face with tear

In the release of Emoji 12.1 and Unicode 12.1 in 2019 there was 1 change.

Keywords changed

Keywords added

+ grateful + proud + relieved + smiling + smiling face with tear + tear + touched

Similar emojis from "Smiling and Affectionate"

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Smiling and Affectionate
😀 Grinning face 😃 Grinning face with big eyes 😄 Grinning face with smiling eyes 😁 Beaming face with smiling eyes 😆 Grinning squinting face 😅 Grinning face with sweat 🤣 Rolling on the floor laughing 😂 Face with tears of joy 🙂 Slightly smiling face 😉 Winking face 😊 Smiling face with smiling eyes 😇 Smiling face with halo 🥰 Smiling face with hearts 😍 Smiling face with heart-eyes 🤩 Star-struck 😘 Face blowing a kiss 😗 Kissing face ☺️ Smiling face 😏 Smirking face 😚 Kissing face with closed eyes 😙 Kissing face with smiling eyes 🥲 Smiling face with tear
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Comments

(10) Comments

  • It can also mean being genuinely happy for someone or something. More like a tears of joy.

  • Often used to express a fake cry.

  • It stands for depression.

  • It means exhaustion on one side and elation on the other. It can also be tears of happiness.

  • For both happy and sad moments (when they happen together) I use this emoji.

  • I use this when I think I'm done preparing for a paper and realize I've been studying for the wrong topic.

  • This means that someone is overjoyed and therefore has tears in his eyes.