😁Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes Emoji
Generally, 😁 just means someone is happy and smiling. It’s a simple way to show you’re feeling good about something.
The 😁 emoji is a beaming face with a wide smile and teeth.
- Unicode
- U+1F601
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :grin:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #12 most used
What does the 😁 Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 11 of them.
Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the beaming face with smiling eyes as 9 vendors ship it.
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.
Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes emoji copy and paste
Tap any value to copy it. The emoji itself works everywhere, the escapes are for your code, and the shortcode Slack and Discord expect is :grin:.
In your code
Escapes for the languages people actually paste this into. Every one of them produces the same character, and that character is U+1F601.
How to type the 😁 Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes emoji
Where the emoji key lives on each system — and the codes for when there is no picker at all.
Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the beaming face with smiling eyes as transparent PNG or SVG. Each system ships its own drawing, and the licence stays with the vendor, all 9 of them.
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around beaming face with smiling eyes 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.
Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes Emoji Kitchen stickers
Mixed with other emojis by Google's Kitchen — 14 of those stickers exist for the beaming face with smiling eyes. Tap any to open it full size.
What 😁 means from a girl or a guy
Who sent the beaming face with smiling eyes and what came before it change the reading more than the emoji itself does.
What 😁 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
The character is the same everywhere, but the artwork and the reading of it change from app to app.
😁 vs 😃 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes
Code: U+1F601 · added 2010
Shortcode: :grin:
Generally, 😁 just means someone is happy and smiling.
Unicode name: Grinning Face with Big Eyes
Code: U+1F603 · added 2010
Shortcode: :smiley:
Generally, 😃 means someone is happy and excited.
Where the 😁 Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes emoji came from
This one is older than Unicode emoji: Japanese carriers were drawing it on their handsets years before the standard existed, which it finally joined in 2010.
Same character every time — U+1F601 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.
Long before Unicode had emoji, Japanese carriers shipped their own picture sets.
😁 existed there as
NTT DoCoMo E753, KDDI au EB80, SoftBank E404.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Beaming Face with Smiling Eyes was approved as U+1F601 and shipped in Emoji 0.6 (2010). Emoji 0.6 is the original 2010 batch that came over from the Japanese sets.
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.