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😁Beaming Face With Smiling Eyes Emoji
The beaming face with smiling eyes emoji 😁 carries the codepoint U+1F601 and has been in the standard since Unicode 6.0 (2010). It belongs to Smileys & Emotion → Smiling.
What 😁 beaming face with smiling eyes means
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.
Unicode tags this one beaming, eye and eyes and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Smiling.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F601 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 😁 | |
| HTML decimal | 😁 | |
| CSS | \1F601 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F601} | |
| Python | \U0001F601 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83D\uDE01 | |
| Rust | \u{1f601} | |
| Swift | \u{1F601} | |
| PHP | \u{1F601} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%98%81 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 98 81 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83D DE01 | |
| Base64 | 8J+YgQ== | |
| Decimal | 128513 | |
| Introduced | Unicode 6.0 (2010) | |
Keywords
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How to type 😁
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “beaming face with smiling eyes”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “beaming”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f601and Enter. - HTML — paste
😁.
How 😁 renders
The same character drawn with whichever emoji fonts your device has installed. Apple, Google and Microsoft each draw it differently, so what you see below depends on what you are reading this on.
- 😁Apple
- 😁Segoe
- 😁Noto
- 😁System
Frequently asked questions
What does the 😁 beaming face with smiling eyes emoji mean?+
😁 is the beaming face with smiling eyes emoji, tagged beaming, eye and eyes. 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.
What is the Unicode code for 😁?+
beaming face with smiling eyes is U+1F601. In HTML that is 😁, in CSS \1F601, and in JavaScript \u{1F601}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 😁 emoji added?+
beaming face with smiling eyes got its emoji presentation in Unicode 6.0 (2010). Platforms that shipped before that release may draw it in plain text, or not at all — that is why the same character can look different on an old phone.
Related emojis
More emojis from Smiling in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 😁 beaming face with smiling eyes.