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smiling face

A classic plain smile

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Code points: U+263A U+FE0F
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Meaning

A small, closed-mouth, relaxed smile — one of the oldest smileys.

Smiling face — Approved as part of Unicode 6.0 in 2010.

In conversation

Calm friendliness: contented responses, gentle positivity, 'all good'.

Tone

Calm and classic.

Common uses

calm agreement
gentle positivity
saying 'all good'

Watch out

Easily confused with 🙂 — it's the older, softer classic.

Examples

all good ☺️
lovely, thanks ☺️
feeling peaceful ☺️

Also known as

smiling faceclassic smileyrelaxed smile

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Emoji names around the world

English: smiling faceالعربية وجه مبتسم español cara sonriente português rosto sorridente हिन्दी मुस्काता चेहरा Indonesia wajah tersenyum

Names from Unicode CLDR 48.2.1 — official Unicode data.

Quick facts

Code points: U+263A U+FE0F
Unicode name: smiling face
Category: Smileys & EmotionAffectionate faces
Unicode: 6.0 · 2010Emoji 0.6Unicode history
Keywords: face happy outlined relaxed smile smiling emoji meaning mean

Developer

Emoji sequenceemoji presentation requested via VS16 (U+FE0F)

Unicode data

Code pointsU+263A U+FE0F

Unicode namesmiling face

UTF-8E2 98 BA EF B8 8F

Shortcodes

Shortcode (Discord / GitHub / Slack):smiling_face:

HTML & CSS

HTML (hex)☺️

HTML (decimal)☺️

CSS\263A \FE0F

Languages

JavaScript\u{263A}\u{FE0F}

Python\u263A\uFE0F

Perl\x{263A}\x{FE0F}

PHP / Ruby\u{263A}\u{FE0F}

Encodings

Punycodexn--74h6500f

URL escape code%E2%98%BA%EF%B8%8F

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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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