Smiling Face Emoji ☺

Smiling Face
U+263A
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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.

Text is also available in the following languages: Español; Русский;

Synonyms

Smiling Face, have a nice day!, grinning face, happy face, smiley face.

Emoji ☺ Smiling Face on platforms

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

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