☺️Smiling Face Emoji
Generally, it just means someone is smiling and feels happy or pleased. It’s a simple way to convey warmth and friendliness in a text.
The ☺️ emoji is basically a smiling face with a little blush.
- Unicode
- U+263A U+FE0F
- Released
- 2010
- Shortcode
- :relaxed:
- Skin tones
- No
- Popularity
- #17 most used
What does the ☺️ Smiling Face emoji mean?
One character, many names — these are the wordings people actually type, all 6 of them.
People also look for it as relaxed emoji.
Smiling Face emoji on iPhone, Android, WhatsApp and X
The character is always U+263A — but every vendor draws it their own way. This is what your smiling 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.
Smiling 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 :relaxed:.
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+263A.
How to type the ☺️ Smiling Face emoji
No picker to hand? The smiling face can be typed straight from the keyboard — the codes for that are below, one per system.
Smiling Face emoji PNG and SVG
Grab the smiling face 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
Smiling Face emoji combinations
Ready-made combos built around smiling 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
The same character carries a different intent depending on the sender and the message before it.
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: Smiling Face
Code: U+263A U+FE0F · added 2010
Shortcode: :relaxed:
Generally, it just means someone is smiling and feels happy or pleased.
Unicode name: Smiling Face with Tear
Code: U+1F972 · added 2020
Shortcode: :smiling_face_with_tear:
Generally, 🥲 means you're feeling a mix of happy and a little sad or emotional.
Where the ☺️ Smiling 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+263A U+FE0F 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 E4FB, SoftBank E414.
Those codes are why it survived into the standard at all — Unicode had to keep Japanese messages readable.
Smiling Face was approved as U+263A U+FE0F 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.