Grinning face with big eyes

Eager, wide-eyed excitement. The open mouth and big round eyes make it feel more energetic than 😀, like someone who just heard a great idea and wants in.

Fits quick, upbeat replies such as “Yes, let's do it 😃” or a reaction to good news. It reads as sunny and slightly old-school, and it is harmless in work messages where slangier emoji would feel off.

Facts

Grinning face with big 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 :smiley: or :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:. People also look for it with words like “awesome”, “big”, “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