Smiling Face emoji
Type :relaxed: · #17 most-used emoji · Smileys & emotion
Unicode name Smiling Face · added in Emoji 0.6, 2010
What ☺️ means
The old-style relaxed smile, softer and rounder than 😊. It carries a slightly nostalgic, gentle tone; heavy users of it tend to mean every word kindly.
If you are trying to read into it
The old-style relaxed smile, softer and rounder than 😊. It reads slightly nostalgic and very sincere, and heavy users of it tend to mean every word kindly. It skews older, and that is the only real signal in it.
How to type ☺️ without a picker
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installed, type :rela
in any text field (X, Gmail, Facebook, LinkedIn, anywhere), pick ☺️ from the suggestion that
appears, and keep typing. No picker, no copy-paste round trip.
Shortcodes
:relaxed: :smiling_face: Search terms
Also found by searching face, happy, outlined, relaxed, smile, smiling.
☺️ in HTML, CSS and code
Smiling Face is a sequence of 2 codepoints, which is why pasting only the first one renders something else. Use the whole thing.
- Unicode
- U+263A U+FE0F
- HTML
- ☺️
- JavaScript
- '\u{263A}\u{FE0F}'
- CSS content
- "\263A \FE0F"
- Python
- '\u263A\uFE0F'
- URL-encoded
- %E2%98%BA%EF%B8%8F
Related emojis
:grinning: 😃 :grinning_face_with_big_eyes: 😄 :grinning_face_with_closed_eyes: 😁 :beaming_face: 😆 :laughing: 🙂 :slightly_smiling_face: 😇 :halo: 🥲 :smiling_face_with_tear: 😅 :grinning_face_with_sweat: 😊 :blush: All smileys & emotion shortcodes are in the full shortcode list .
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