🙂️ Slightly smiling face emoji

What is 🙂️ called?

🙂️ is called the Slightly smiling face emoji.

What does 🙂️ mean?

The slightly smiling face emoji communicates mild happiness, polite friendliness, or a calm acknowledgement. It fits a gentle thank-you, a small piece of good news, or a message that should feel pleasant without sounding excited.

Its simple closed smile resembles the text emoticon :). Compared with 😀 Grinning face, the emotion is deliberately restrained; 😊 Smiling face with smiling eyes looks warmer and more openly pleased.

Digital tone matters greatly with this symbol because the same controlled smile can be either sincere or pointed.

Other meanings

It is often used for dry sarcasm, passive aggression, discomfort, or “I am fine” when the writer is not entirely fine. A terse sentence followed by 🙂 may therefore feel colder than the symbol looks by itself.

Example Usage

Thanks for letting me know 🙂

Another train has been cancelled 🙂

More details

Its Unicode code point is U+1F642, and it has been available as an emoji since Emoji 1.0. Its restrained smile makes context more important than with the larger grinning faces.

Related emoji

Happy emojis

• 😀️ Grinning face
• 😃️ Grinning face with big eyes
• 😄️ Grinning face with smiling eyes
• 😁️ Beaming face with smiling eyes

Passive Aggressive emojis

• 🙃️ Upside-down face
• 😉️ Winking face

World Smile Day emojis

• 😊️ Smiling face with smiling eyes
• 😍️ Smiling face with heart-eyes
• 😂️ Face with tears of joy
• 🫶️ Heart hands

Visual description

A round yellow face has two small open eyes and a short closed smile. There are no visible teeth, tears, blush marks, or raised brows.

The minimal, balanced expression creates its ambiguity. Platforms vary the width and curvature of the mouth and the size of the eyes.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.