It could also be used to express embarrassment or awkwardness. The Face With Tears Of Joy emoji is used to show laughter.

This should be heartening. In 2015, the Oxford English Dictionary announced that their Word of the Year was the emoji 'Face with Tears of Joy'. The OED chose this emoji because they said it best ...

For example, you can combine a face with tears of joy and a lemon to create a lemon with tears of joy. You can express ...

The “face with tears of joy” continued a six-year streak of being the most used emoji this past year, despite being deemed “uncool” by Gen Z users, according to the “State of Emoji ...