Grinning face with sweat

Nervous relief or mild embarrassment: a smile with a bead of sweat. It says “that was close,” “oops,” or “well, this is awkward, but fine.”

People add it to small admissions of fault, near misses and self-deprecating jokes, such as “forgot the meeting was today 😅.” In work chat it softens a mistake or a late reply without making a big deal of it.

Facts

Grinning face with sweat 😅 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 :sweat_smile: or :grinning_face_with_sweat:. People also look for it with words like “cold”, “dejected”, “excited”, 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