Grinning face

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Shortcode
:grinning:
Shortcode
:grinning_face:
Unicode
U+1F600
HTML
😀
CSS
\1F600
JavaScript
"\u{1F600}"
URL
%F0%9F%98%80

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What ๐Ÿ˜€ means

Plain, open happiness: a wide grin with nothing hidden behind it. It says things are good, the news is welcome, or the sender is simply in a cheerful mood.

Works as a friendly sign-off or to soften a request, and it is safe in work chat. Next to warmer smiles like ๐Ÿ˜Š or ๐Ÿ˜„ it can feel a little stiff, so some readers take it as polite rather than delighted.

Facts

Grinning face ๐Ÿ˜€ is an emoji in the smileys and emotion category, under face smiling. It became part of the emoji standard in Emoji 1.0, released in 2015. On GitHub, Slack and other apps you can type it as :grinning: or :grinning_face:. People also look for it with words like โ€œcheerfulโ€, โ€œcheeryโ€, โ€œfaceโ€, or โ€œgrinโ€.

Timeline

  1. 2015Added to the emoji standard (Emoji 1.0)

Design history

Google (Noto)

  1. grinning face, Google (Noto) design from 20152015
  2. grinning face, Google (Noto) design from 20172017
  3. grinning face, Google (Noto) design from 20202020
  4. grinning face, Google (Noto) design from 20262026

Twemoji (X, Discord)

  1. grinning face, Twemoji (X, Discord) design from 20142014

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

smileys & emotion ยท Emoji 1.0