Smiling Emojis 😀 😃 😄 😁
Browse all 14 smiling emojis from the Smileys & Emotion category. Click any emoji to copy it to your clipboard instantly, or open its page for meanings, Unicode codepoints, shortcodes and skin-tone variants.
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What smiling emojis are used for
The default reaction set: acknowledgement, warmth, a laugh at something that was only mildly funny. These do most of the light social work in a chat. Tone has drifted, though - plenty of younger users read the plain 🙂 as clipped or passive-aggressive rather than friendly, so it now lands closer to a raised eyebrow than a smile.
Smiling in the Unicode Standard
Unicode files 14 emojis under Smiling, inside the Smileys & Emotion group. The set was built up over 4 Unicode releases, from Unicode 6.0 (2010) to Emoji 14.0 (2021), so the newer members are the ones most likely to show as a box on an older phone. The most recent additions are 🫠 melting face.