Smileys & Emotion · Emoji 0.6
😂Face with Tears of Joy Emoji
It usually just means something is really funny to the person sending it. They’re letting you know they found it hilarious.
The 😂 emoji is all about showing you found something incredibly funny.
- Unicode
- U+1F602
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :joy:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #1 most used
01 — Meaning
What does the 😂 Face with Tears of Joy 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 funny emoji, tears emoji, funny face emoji, happy tears emoji, face funny emoji, funny crying emoji, hehe emoji, tears joy emoji.
02 — Platforms
Face with Tears of Joy emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Vendors keep repainting this one. Counting the archived versions further down, the face with tears of joy has been drawn in 3 ways.
See the whole set the way each system draws it — iPhone emojis, Android emojis, WhatsApp emojis and Discord emojis.
03 — Copy & codes
Face with Tears of Joy 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 :joy:.
All emoji copy and paste →In your code
Pick the notation your language wants. They all resolve to the face with tears of joy, code point U+1F602.
04 — How to type
How to type the 😂 Face with Tears of Joy emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F602 when there is no key at all.
05 — Download
Face with Tears of Joy 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.
Emoji PNG library →
Apple
Google
Twitter / X
Facebook
Microsoft
06 — Combinations
Face with Tears of Joy emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around face with tears of joy for bios, captions and comments. Tap to copy.
All combinations →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.
08 — In conversation
What 😂 means from a girl or a guy
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
09 — Apps
What 😂 means on TikTok, WhatsApp and Discord
One code point, several readings — where the face with tears of joy lands changes how it is taken.
11 — Difference
😂 vs 🥹 — what is the difference?
Two emojis that get mixed up constantly. They are different characters with different names.
Unicode name: Face with Tears of Joy
Code: U+1F602 · added 2010
Shortcode: :joy:
It usually just means something is really funny to the person sending it.
Unicode name: Face Holding Back Tears
Code: U+1F979 · added 2021
Shortcode: :face_holding_back_tears:
Basically, it means they're feeling super emotional and a little bit overwhelmed with happiness.
12 — History
Where the 😂 Face with Tears of Joy 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+1F602 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 E72A, KDDI au EB64, SoftBank E412.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Face with Tears of Joy was approved as U+1F602 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.
13 — FAQ