🙂️ Slightly smiling face emoji

The slightly smiling face emoji means mild happiness, politeness, or a small friendly smile. It is often used when a message should feel calm, gentle, or lightly positive.

It represents the text emoticon :) or the phrase "smiley face". Compared with 😀 Grinning face, this emoji is quieter and less excited.

Context matters: the same small smile can also feel sarcastic, passive-aggressive, or tense.

Could also be called smiley face, smile, sarcastic, ironic, polite smile or passive aggressive smile emoji.

Other meanings

This emoji can be used sarcastically or ironically to suggest displeasure, discomfort, or a polite smile that hides the speaker's real feeling.

Example Usage

Thanks for your help 🙂️

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 Emoji emojis

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

Visual description

On iOS, this emoji is a round yellow face with small open eyes and a simple closed smile. The mouth is a short curved line, not open, and no teeth are shown.

The expression looks mild and controlled rather than excited. Other platforms may make the smile slightly wider or flatter.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.