😄Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes Emoji
Generally, 😄 means you’re happy and smiling. It’s a simple way to show excitement or positivity in a text.
The 😄 emoji is a super common one.
- Unicode
- U+1F604
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :smile:
- Skin tones
- No
What does the 😄 Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 12 of them.
Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
Same code on both ends, different drawing on each screen — here is the grinning 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.
Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes emoji copy and paste
Everything here is the same character in different notation — including the shortcode chat apps know it by, :smile:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F604.
How to type the 😄 Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F604 when there is no key at all.
Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes 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 with Smiling Eyes emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around grinning 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.
Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes Emoji Kitchen stickers
Mixed with other emojis by Google's Kitchen — 14 of those stickers exist for the grinning face with smiling eyes. Tap any to open it full size.
What 😄 means from a girl or a guy
Same emoji, different intent depending on who sent it and what came before.
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: Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes
Code: U+1F604 · added 2010
Shortcode: :smile:
Generally, 😄 means you’re happy and smiling.
Unicode name: Grinning Face
Code: U+1F600 · added 2015
Shortcode: :grinning:
Generally, 😀 means you’re happy and feeling good about something.
Where the 😄 Grinning 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+1F604 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 E6F0, KDDI au E471, SoftBank E415.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Grinning Face with Smiling Eyes was approved as U+1F604 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.
People wrote it as
C:, c:, :D, :-D back when messages were plain text. Most keyboards still convert those automatically.