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grinning squinting face

A grinning face with tightly closed eyes

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Code points: U+1F606
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Meaning

A tight grin with squinting eyes — laughing hard or squeezing out a smile.

Grinning squinting face — Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

In conversation

Playful laughter or a slightly forced smile ('haha... yeah').

Tone

Playful, sometimes nervous.

Common uses

laughing along
nervous cheer
light jokes

Watch out

Can read as a strained smile — for real laughter use 😂.

Examples

haha, sure 😆
so funny 😆
yeah... 😆

Also known as

grinning squinting facelaughing eyes

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Used in combos

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ribbon + grinning squinting face — cute combo

teddy bear + grinning squinting face — cute combo

strawberry + grinning squinting face — cute combo

cherry blossom + grinning squinting face — cute combo

bubbles + grinning squinting face — cute combo

dango + grinning squinting face — cute combo

cupcake + grinning squinting face — cute combo

rabbit face + grinning squinting face — cute combo

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Emoji names around the world

English: grinning squinting faceالعربية وجه مبتسم بعينين مغلقتين español cara sonriendo con los ojos cerrados português rosto risonho com olhos semicerrados हिन्दी बंद आँखों वाला दाँत दिखाता चेहरा Indonesia wajah tersenyum lebar dan memejamkan mata

Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.

Quick facts

Code points: U+1F606
Unicode name: grinning squinting face
Category: Smileys & EmotionSmiling faces
Unicode: 6.0 · 2010Emoji 0.6Unicode history
Keywords: closed eyes face grinning haha hahaha happy laugh lol mouth open rofl smile smiling

Developer

Single code point

Unicode data

Code pointsU+1F606

Unicode namegrinning squinting face

UTF-8F0 9F 98 86

Shortcodes

Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack):grinning_squinting_face:

HTML & CSS

HTML (hex)😆

HTML (decimal)😆

CSS\1F606

Languages

JavaScript\u{1F606}

Python\U0001F606

Perl\x{1F606}

PHP / Ruby\u{1F606}

Encodings

Punycodexn--k28h

URL escape code%F0%9F%98%86

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Noto Emoji — Licenses & attribution — **Noto Emoji**Google Fonts · SIL OFL 1.1

Twemoji — Licenses & attribution — **Twemoji**Twemoji project · CC BY 4.0

OpenMoji — Licenses & attribution — **OpenMoji**OpenMoji project · CC BY-SA 4.0

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Frequently asked

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