😆Grinning Squinting Face Emoji
It usually means you find something funny. People use it like “lol” in texts to show they’re laughing along with you.
The 😆 emoji is a grinning, squinting face.
- Unicode
- U+1F606
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :laughing:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #21 most used
What does the 😆 Grinning Squinting Face emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 15 of them.
People also look for it as squinting eyes emoji, rofl emoji.
Grinning Squinting Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character you send is always U+1F606. The picture is not: it is redrawn by each system, and the designs below number 9.
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 Squinting Face 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 :laughing:.
In your code
Different notation, one result: whichever escape you paste, what comes out is U+1F606.
How to type the 😆 Grinning Squinting Face emoji
Every system hides the emoji key somewhere else. Here is where, plus the raw codes for U+1F606 when there is no key at all.
Grinning Squinting 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 Squinting Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around grinning squinting 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
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 Squinting Face
Code: U+1F606 · added 2010
Shortcode: :laughing:
It usually means you find something funny.
Unicode name: Grinning Face
Code: U+1F600 · added 2015
Shortcode: :grinning:
Generally, 😀 means you’re happy and feeling good about something.
Where the 😆 Grinning Squinting Face 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+1F606 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 EAC5.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Grinning Squinting Face was approved as U+1F606 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
:>, :-> back when messages were plain text. Most keyboards still convert those automatically.