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☺️Smiling Face Emoji

Tagged face, happy and outlined, ☺️ smiling face sits in Unicode's Affectionate group inside Smileys & Emotion. It was introduced in Unicode 6.0 (2010) at U+263A U+FE0F.

What ☺️ smiling face 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, happy and outlined and files it under Smileys & Emotion → Affectionate.

Copy variants

smiling face carries a variation selector (U+FE0F) that forces colour rendering. Drop it and the same character renders as monochrome text.

Shortcodes

Type these instead of pasting — most chat apps expand them as you type.

How ☺️ is built

This emoji is more than one codepoint. Each part below is a character in its own right.

☺U+263Asmiling face
·U+FE0FVariation selector (emoji style)

Codes & technical data

Unicode	`U+263A U+FE0F`
HTML hex	`☺️`
HTML decimal	`☺️`
CSS	`\263A\FE0F`
JavaScript	`\u{263A}\u{FE0F}`
Python	`\U0000263A\U0000FE0F`
Java / C#	`\u263A\uFE0F`
Rust	`\u{263a}\u{fe0f}`
Swift	`\u{263A}\u{FE0F}`
PHP	`\u{263A}\u{FE0F}`
URL encoded	`%E2%98%BA%EF%B8%8F`
UTF-8 bytes	`E2 98 BA EF B8 8F`
UTF-16 bytes	`263A FE0F`
Base64	`4pi677iP`
Decimal	`9786 65039`
Introduced	Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Keywords

face
happy
outlined
relaxed
smile
smiling

Appears in these collections

How to type ☺️

Windows — press Win + . and search “smiling face”.
macOS — press Ctrl + Cmd + Space to open the character viewer.
iOS & Android — switch to the emoji keyboard and type “face”.
Linux — press Ctrl + Shift + U, then type 263a and 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 emoji mean?+

☺️ is the smiling face emoji, tagged face, happy and outlined. 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 is U+263A U+FE0F. In HTML that is ☺️, in CSS \263A\FE0F, and in JavaScript \u{263A}\u{FE0F}. The full table above lists every escape format.

When was the ☺️ emoji added?+

smiling face 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.

Added in Unicode 6.0 (2010)

Other emojis that shipped in the same Unicode release as ☺️ smiling face.