What does 🙂 mean?
Slight smile. Often not warm but forced or ironic ('I'm fine 🙂').
Its official Unicode name is SLIGHTLY SMILING FACE and its CLDR short name is "slightly smiling face" (in Hungarian: "finoman mosolygó arc"). It belongs to the Smileys & Emotion group and was added in Emoji 1.0 in 2015.
Keywords that find it
Keyboards and emoji pickers suggest it for these words (Unicode CLDR).
- face
- happy
- slightly
- smile
- smiling
In Hungarian: arc, boldog, mosoly, szmájli
Will it look the same for everyone?
Every vendor (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung, WhatsApp and Facebook) draws 🙂 in its own style, so the colours or shape may differ a little for the person you send it to. The meaning stays the same, because the text always carries the same code point: U+1F642. It has been around for years, so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Technical details
- Official name
- SLIGHTLY SMILING FACE
- Hungarian name (CLDR)
- finoman mosolygó arc
- English name (CLDR)
- slightly smiling face
- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0 (2015)
- Group
- Smileys & Emotion · face smiling
- Length
- 1 code point · 4 bytes in UTF-8 · 2 UTF-16 units
- Shortcode
- :slightly_smiling_face:
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Frequently asked questions
What does the 🙂 emoji mean?
Slight smile. Often not warm but forced or ironic ('I'm fine 🙂').
How do I type the 🙂 emoji?
The easiest way is to copy it from this page. On Windows open the Win + . panel, on a Mac press Ctrl + Cmd + Space, and on a phone search the emoji keyboard for "face".
When was the 🙂 emoji added?
It was added in Emoji 1.0 (2015), so practically every phone and computer in use today supports it.
Data: Unicode emoji-test.txt and Unicode Character Database 18.0, Unicode CLDR (names, keywords), GitHub gemoji (shortcodes). The meaning describes everyday online use, not an official definition.