Slightly smiling face emoji 🙂
Emoji 1.0 (2015) · U+1F642
What 🙂 means
The keywords Unicode lists for 🙂 are face, happy, slightly, smile, smiling. They show what people use it for.
Search for face or happy on your emoji keyboard and 🙂 is among the results.
You will find 🙂 among the smiling faces (15 emoji), part of smileys & emotion with 172 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🙃 🫠 😉 😊.
Will 🙂 show on my friend's phone?
🙂 has been around since Emoji 1.0 (2015), so it is safe to send to anyone.
How to type 🙂
Search for slightly smiling face in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🙂.
- Windows 10 and 11: press Win+. to open the emoji panel, then type slightly smiling face.
- Mac: press Ctrl+⌘+Space and type slightly smiling face in the search box.
- iPhone and Android: open the emoji keyboard, tap its search field and type slightly smiling face.
Codes for developers
Under the hood, 🙂 is one code point (U+1F642), 4 bytes in UTF-8 and 2 UTF-16 units, which is what a JavaScript length check counts.
Paste the emoji itself where you can. Use these codes in HTML, CSS, JavaScript or a URL.
| Code points | U+1F642 | |
|---|---|---|
| HTML (hex) | 🙂 | |
| HTML (decimal) | 🙂 | |
| CSS | content: "\1F642"; | |
| JavaScript | \u{1F642} | |
| URL | %F0%9F%99%82 | |
| UTF-8 bytes | F0 9F 99 82 |
Names in other languages
The CLDR name of 🙂 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.
| Language | Name |
|---|---|
| English | slightly smiling face |
| Português | rosto levemente sorridente |
| Español | cara sonriendo ligeramente |
| Italiano | faccina con sorriso accennato |
| Français | visage avec un léger sourire |
| Deutsch | leicht lächelndes Gesicht |
| Türkçe | hafifçe gülümseyen yüz |
| Bahasa Indonesia | wajah agak tersenyum |
| Polski | lekko uśmiechnięta twarz |
| Русский | слегка улыбается |
| 日本語 | 微笑む |
| 한국어 | 살짝 미소 짓는 얼굴 |
More emoji like this
All smileys & emotion emoji →Questions people ask
What does the slightly smiling face emoji mean?
Unicode calls 🙂 "slightly smiling face" and links it with face, happy, slightly, smile. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the smiling faces subgroup of smileys & emotion.
When was the slightly smiling face emoji added?
In Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. Every current phone and computer has it.
How do I type the slightly smiling face emoji?
Search for slightly smiling face in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🙂.