☺️ Smiling Face
Copy and paste this emoji: ☺️
Emoji Meaning
1
A classic yellow smiley with rosy cheeks and gently closed eyes, wearing a warm, friendly grin. Its expression radiates happiness, contentment, and pleasure — and it’s often used to answer “How are you?”
2
A yellow, round-faced emoji with a peaceful expression — a modest smile, rosy cheeks, and eyes shaped like parentheses. It’s the classic smiley you see everywhere, with relaxed eyebrows forming gentle arches.
Use this emoji to convey a range of warm and kind emotions — to react to pleasant news or to acknowledge a friendly wish. Its appearance radiates simple, overflowing positivity. Its closest relative is the face with a satisfied smile and pink cheeks.
Also Known As
- ☺️ Happy Face
- ☺️ Smiley Face
- ☺️ Smiling
Apple Name
- ☺️ Smiling Face
Unicode Name
- ☺️ White Smiling Face
How does this emoji look on different platforms?
☺️ Emoji Codes
Codepoints
U+263A U+FE0F
Shortcodes
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For developers
| URL escape code | %E2%98%BA%EF%B8%8F |
| Punycode | xn--74h |
| Bytes (UTF-8) | E2 98 BA EF B8 8F |
| JavaScript, JSON, Java | \u263A\uFE0F |
| C, C++, Python | \u263A\uFE0F |
| CSS | \263A \FE0F |
| PHP, Ruby | \u{263A}\u{FE0F} |
| Perl | \x{263A}\x{FE0F} |
| HTML hex | ☺️ |
| HTML dec | ☺️ |