😀Grinning Face Emoji
Generally, 😀 means you’re happy and feeling good about something. It’s a straightforward way to express positive emotion in a text.
The 😀 emoji, also known as the Grinning Face, is one of the most common emojis out there.
- Unicode
- U+1F600
- Released
- 2015
- Shortcode
- :grinning:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😀 Grinning Face emoji mean?
People search for it under a lot of different names. All of these point at the same character.
People also look for it as nice emoji.
Grinning Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+1F600 — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your grinning face looks like to the person on the other side.
iPhone, iPad, macOS
Android, Gmail, Chrome
X, Discord, Twemoji apps
Facebook, Messenger
Open-source, design systems
Galaxy, One UI
Windows, Teams, Fluent
WhatsApp on Android
Slack, Discord themes
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
Grinning Face emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :grinning:.
In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the grinning face, code point U+1F600.
How to type the 😀 Grinning Face emoji
No picker to hand? The grinning face can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Grinning Face emoji PNG and SVG
Transparent PNG and SVG for thumbnails, decks and design files — one file per vendor, which makes 9. Artwork belongs to whoever drew it, so check the licence before commercial use.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Grinning Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around grinning face for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
Want two emojis fused into one sticker instead of set side by side? Emoji Kitchen does that with 😀, and there are more ready-made pairs in emoji combinations and aesthetic emoji combos.
What 😀 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the grinning face and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 😀 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the grinning face lands changes how it is taken.
😀 vs 😃 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Grinning Face
Code: U+1F600 · added 2015
Shortcode: :grinning:
Generally, 😀 means you’re happy and feeling good about something.
Unicode name: Grinning Face with Big Eyes
Code: U+1F603 · added 2010
Shortcode: :smiley:
Generally, 😃 means someone is happy and excited.
Where the 😀 Grinning Face emoji came from
It arrived with the 1.0 release of the standard, which dates the grinning face to 2015.
Same character every time — U+1F600 never changed. Only the drawing did, and only because each vendor redraws its own set. Someone on an older phone still sees the older picture.
Grinning Face was approved as U+1F600 and shipped in Emoji 1.0 (2015). Phones usually get new artwork about a year after approval, in a system update.
Every vendor keeps its own artwork, so 😀 is redrawn by Apple, Google, Twitter / X, Facebook, OpenMoji, Samsung, Microsoft, WhatsApp, JoyPixels. The character you send never changes — only the picture does.