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Smiling face with tear emoji 🥲

Emoji 13.0 (2020) · U+1F972

What 🥲 means

The keywords Unicode lists for 🥲 are face, glad, grateful, happy, joy, pain, proud, relieved, smile, smiley. They show what people use it for.

Search for face or glad on your emoji keyboard and 🥲 is among the results.

You will find 🥲 among the affectionate faces (9 emoji), part of smileys & emotion with 172 emoji in all. Its neighbours include 🥰 😍 🤩 😘.

Will 🥲 show on my friend's phone?

Emoji 13.0 brought 🥲 in 2020. Most phones show it now; only devices that have not been updated for years miss it.

How to type 🥲

Search for smiling face with tear in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🥲.

Codes for developers

Under the hood, 🥲 is one code point (U+1F972), 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 pointsU+1F972
HTML (hex)🥲
HTML (decimal)🥲
CSScontent: "\1F972";
JavaScript\u{1F972}
URL%F0%9F%A5%B2
UTF-8 bytesF0 9F A5 B2

Names in other languages

The CLDR name of 🥲 in the 12 languages of this site. Each links to that language's page.

Questions people ask

What does the smiling face with tear emoji mean?

Unicode calls 🥲 "smiling face with tear" and links it with face, glad, grateful, happy. People use it for those ideas; on the emoji keyboard it sits in the affectionate faces subgroup of smileys & emotion.

When was the smiling face with tear emoji added?

In Emoji 13.0, released in 2020. Phones updated since about 2021 show it.

How do I type the smiling face with tear emoji?

Search for smiling face with tear in the emoji picker of your phone or computer to find 🥲.

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