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🥲Smiling Face With Tear Emoji
🥲 smiling face with tear is encoded at U+1F972 and shipped with Emoji 13.0 (2020). Unicode files it under Smileys & Emotion → Affectionate, alongside 8 related emojis.
What 🥲 smiling face with tear means
Affection emoji carry romance, but most of their traffic is platonic: 🥰 on a friend's selfie, 😍 under a photo of someone's dog, 😘 as a sign-off between people who are not dating. Smiling face with hearts joined Unicode in 2018 and now does much of the warm-compliment work heart-eyes handled alone from 2010.
Unicode tags this one face, glad and grateful and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Affectionate.
Shortcodes
Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.
Codes & technical data
| Unicode | U+1F972 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML hex | 🥲 | |
| HTML decimal | 🥲 | |
| CSS | \1F972 | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F972} | |
| Python | \U0001F972 | |
| Java / C# | \uD83E\uDD72 | |
| Rust | \u{1f972} | |
| Swift | \u{1F972} | |
| PHP | \u{1F972} | |
| URL encoded | %F0%9F%A5%B2 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F A5 B2 | |
| UTF-16 bytes | D83E DD72 | |
| Base64 | 8J+lsg== | |
| Decimal | 129394 | |
| Introduced | Emoji 13.0 (2020) | |
Keywords
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How to type 🥲
- Windows — press
Win + .and search “smiling face with tear”. - macOS — press
Ctrl + Cmd + Spaceto open the character viewer. - iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “face”.
- Linux — press
Ctrl + Shift + U, then type1f972and 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 🥲 smiling face with tear emoji mean?+
🥲 is the smiling face with tear emoji, tagged face, glad and grateful. Affection emoji carry romance, but most of their traffic is platonic: 🥰 on a friend's selfie, 😍 under a photo of someone's dog, 😘 as a sign-off between people who are not dating. Smiling face with hearts joined Unicode in 2018 and now does much of the warm-compliment work heart-eyes handled alone from 2010.
What is the Unicode code for 🥲?+
smiling face with tear is U+1F972. In HTML that is 🥲, in CSS \1F972, and in JavaScript \u{1F972}. The full table above lists every escape format.
When was the 🥲 emoji added?+
smiling face with tear got its emoji presentation in Emoji 13.0 (2020). 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 Affectionate in Smileys & Emotion.
Added in Emoji 13.0 (2020)
Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as 🥲 smiling face with tear.