Beaming face with smiling eyes

A big toothy beam that shows pride, glee or a touch of sheepishness. Depending on context it says “I'm thrilled” or “heh, sorry about that.”

Common after sharing an achievement, confessing something cheeky, or hyping a plan. It works with friends and in relaxed work chat.

The bared teeth look a lot like 😬, which means awkward tension, so readers sometimes mix the two up.

Facts

Beaming face with smiling eyes 😁 is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face smiling. It is one of the early emoji from Japanese phones, standardized in Unicode 6.0 (2010). On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :grin: or :beaming_face_with_smiling_eyes:. People also look for it with words like “beaming”, “eye”, “eyes”, or “face”.

Timeline

1. 2010Added to the emoji standard (Unicode 6.0)

Design history

Google Noto Emoji images: Apache 2.0. Twemoji graphics by X Corp and contributors: CC-BY 4.0.

smileys & emotion · Unicode 6.0