☺️ Smiling face emoji

What is ☺️ called?

☺️ is called the Smiling face emoji.

What does ☺️ mean?

The smiling face emoji is a classic smiley symbol for gentle happiness, friendliness, contentment, or affection. It feels softer and more traditional than many modern yellow-face emojis and can add warmth to thanks, greetings, and reassuring messages.

This character is often called the smiley face, happy face, or white smiling face. 😊 Smiling face with smiling eyes adds rosy cheeks, while 🙂 Slightly smiling face uses a newer, more minimal expression that can be more ambiguous.

Its long history as a text symbol makes it useful for symbol-only searches and for contexts where a simple, familiar smile is preferred.

Other meanings

It can convey peaceful satisfaction, nostalgia, modest gratitude, or quiet encouragement. As with any smile, an unusually terse message can make it seem restrained or ironic, but its usual tone is warm.

Example Usage

It was lovely to see you today ☺️

Take your time; there is no rush ☺️

More details

Its base Unicode code point is U+263A. A variation selector, U+FE0F, commonly requests the colourful emoji form ☺️ instead of the text-style symbol ☺. It has been available as an emoji since Emoji 1.0.

Related emoji

Happy emojis

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

Rosy Cheeks emojis

• 😊️ Smiling face with smiling eyes
• 🥰️ Smiling face with hearts
• 😚️ Kissing face with closed eyes
• 🤗️ Smiling face with open hands

Visual description

In emoji presentation, a yellow face has two simple eyes and a curved closed smile, often with relaxed brows or faint rosy cheeks. The expression is calm rather than broadly grinning.

Because U+263A is an older symbol, it may appear as a monochrome outlined face when a system uses text presentation instead of colourful emoji presentation.

⚠️ Emoji appearance varies by platform.