Smiling Face Emoji ☺
Emoji Meaning
A classic smiley face. This symbol appeared last century, but not as an emoticon. It became widespread thanks to the symbols of colon and parenthesis on the keyboard. In modern systems, apart from eyes and mouth, cheeks and eyebrows can be drawn on a smiling face.
The symbol “Smiling Face” is included in the “Emoticons” subblock of the “Miscellaneous Symbols” block and was approved as part of Unicode version 1.1 in 1993. In 2015, it was also approved as an Emoji in version 1.0 and added to the “Amorous Face (Affection)” subcategory of the “Smileys & Emotion” category.
Synonyms
Smiling Face, have a nice day!, grinning face, happy face, smiley face.
| Unicode Name | White Smiling Face |
| Unicode Number | |
| HTML Code | |
| CSS Code | |
| Plane | 0: Basic Multilingual Plane |
| Unicode Block | Miscellaneous Symbols |
| Unicode Subblock | Emoticons |
| Unicode Version | 1.1 (1993) |
| Emoji Version | 1.0 (2015) |
| Emoji Category | Smileys & Emotion |
| Emoji Subcategory | Amorous Face (Affection) |
| Emoji Name | Smiling Face |
| Alt Code |
| Type of paired mirror bracket (bidi) | None |
| Composition Exclusion | No |
| Case change | 263A |
| Simple case change | 263A |
| Grapheme_Base | + |
| scripts | Common |
| Pattern_Syntax | + |
| Encoding | hex | dec (bytes) | dec | binary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| UTF-8 | E2 98 BA | 226 152 186 | 14850234 | 11100010 10011000 10111010 |
| UTF-16BE | 26 3A | 38 58 | 9786 | 00100110 00111010 |
| UTF-16LE | 3A 26 | 58 38 | 14886 | 00111010 00100110 |
| UTF-32BE | 00 00 26 3A | 0 0 38 58 | 9786 | 00000000 00000000 00100110 00111010 |
| UTF-32LE | 3A 26 00 00 | 58 38 0 0 | 975568896 | 00111010 00100110 00000000 00000000 |
Related Characters
Smiling Face is part of collections:
